Written by a team of experts from across the country, this original collection begins with an introduction to the Canadian criminal justice system followed by two parts: the first focusing on specific areas of the criminal justice system in light of the policy surrounding it and the second examining crime policy as it relates to a range of policy areas such as immigration, welfare, and technology. Current and comprehensive, this innovative volume uncovers the process and participants involved in shaping criminal justice policy, while linking crime policy and democratic governance in Canada to broader institutional, cultural, and global criminal justice trends.

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Karim Ismaili is Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs and Research and Professor of Criminology in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Vincentian Center for Social Justice at St. John's University and an affiliate of the Center for Excellence in Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS). Karim has held professorships at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he was the Inaugural Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology (2006-2010), at 'St. Johns University in New York City (1997-2006), and at Radford University in Virginia (1996-1997). He has also served as a visiting professor of Behavioral Science at the New York Police Academy. Karim's areas of teaching, research and publishing include criminal justice policy and analysis, penology, criminological theory, crime and inequality, and post 9/11 crime and security developments.

Jane B. Sprott received her Ph.D. from the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ryerson University. Her research interests include the operation of the youth and adult criminal justice systems, pre-trial detention, and perceptions of crime and criminal justice policies. Professor Sprott has published work on a variety of issues related to youth justice including; Sprott and Doob Justice for Girls? Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems of the United States and Canada (University of Chicago Press, 2009); Greene, Sprott, Madon and Jung Punishing Processes in Youth Court: Procedural Justice, Court Atmosphere and Youths' Views of the Legitimacy of the Justice System (Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2010); Sprott and Doob Gendered treatment: Bail conditions placed on youths (Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2010).

Kimberly N. Varma earned her doctoral degree in Criminology from the University of Toronto (2000). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ryerson University. Areas of research include parental involvement in youth court, the operation of the youth justice system in Canada, and policies around social assistance fraud and associated penalties.

"This text is well written and researched and makes an important contribution to the Canadian literature on criminal justice policy, where there currently is a dearth of resources." --Hayli Millar, Vancouver Island University

"[The text] is comprehensive and covers contemporary debates in the field. It has a clear structure as a teaching textbook." --Mojgan Rahbari, formerly of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology