Justice committee  I filed an ATIP request to the Correctional Service of Canada and I received some data back. This article that I'm publishing in the spring will have much but not all of the data. There are gaps, and I hope you, the parliamentarians, can address these gaps by calling on the Corre

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  After. It's in my article.

Justice committee  What I'm arguing is that rehabilitation takes time, and the more violent the person, the more damaged the person; the more damaged the person, the greater amount of time needed to intervene in the transformation of this person. There is a great deal of psychological research on t

Justice committee  No. He invited me because I've published other articles on public policy where I've looked at the literature. He knows I have a reputation for being highly empirical and looking up all the data on both sides.

Justice committee  That's not how I interpret the data and that's not how Levitt interpreted the data. There was a dramatic increase in incarceration during the late eighties and into the nineties. In fact, this was the reason he identified as the single most important for the decline in violent cr

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. I want to clarify that a little bit more. The reason I chose those statistics is because they are quite startling. As I think I mentioned, 1962 is really the mid-point of the baby boom generation, and the baby boom generation is the majority demographi

Justice committee  I'm a political scientist in a business school, for starters. I did my doctorate in political science. Canadian public policy was my major field and political philosophy was my minor field, something actually rather far away from the business school. I was asked by Professor Bruc

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. I just want to step back for one moment to address your question and remind everyone here of the Canadian Sentencing Commission of 1988. It identified the different reasons, or principles, as they called them, for sending someone to a federal penitent

Justice committee  Thank you. They did not judge that one was superior to another. I argue in this article that is being published next spring that it's a philosophical choice that you, the parliamentarians, must make. Which principle do you wish to emphasize? I certainly wouldn't presume to tell

Justice committee  Okay, sorry. I can go?

Justice committee  This graph shows three different sentences: someone convicted and sentenced for between two and three years, between three and four years, and between four and five years. What it shows is that the average actual time served is 15 months for a person sentenced for two to three ye

Justice committee  Thank you very much. I'd like to thank the chair and honourable members for inviting me here today before your committee. It's a real honour, and I appreciate it. And I hope it will be lively. I'm going to be talking about what I characterize as the three urban legends. I'm usi