Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm Gary Mauser, a professor at Simon Fraser University. I am privileged to be in both the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies, in criminology, as well as in the faculty of business administration. I have researched and published in c

Justice committee  I apologize. I will go more slowly. My remarks are directed to the question of whether or not incarcerating serious or violent offenders is effective in protecting the public. My reading of the criminological research suggests that imprisoning serious offenders is indeed effec

Justice committee  My teaching is in ethics and quantitative methods.

Justice committee  Quantitative methods--that's statistical applications.

Justice committee  My professional training is in social psychology and quantitative methods, right.

Justice committee  In English, it's U.S., which could be South Africa, but it is not. It is the United States.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  Those are the apparent numbers. You're quite correct--although I would point out that in order to be as clear and straightforward as possible, I have used the statistics available on the American FBI site as well as Stats Canada. So these are the official statistics. Unfortunate

Justice committee  My intent in both graphs is to focus the viewer's attention on the trends. Rather than heavily manipulate the data, which I did not think the committee wanted me to, I gave you the actual from-the-statistical-sources data so that it would be as untrammelled as possible. If you lo

Justice committee  That's quite correct.

Justice committee  That's quite correct.

Justice committee  And the intent here is not to compare the national problems of racism and the legacy of slavery with a country that was the foremost in the Commonwealth or the former British Empire in eliminating slavery. We do not have the legacy of slavery in this country.

Justice committee  Is the question, do I have figures on crimes other than violent crimes?

Justice committee  No, sir. I am looking at overall general effectiveness of a criminal spending time in jail. That was the intent of my presentation.

Justice committee  I have the preliminary numbers, and they don't vary very far from 2004 either way.