NCJ Number
89745
Editor(s)
B Pinet
Date Published
Unknown
Length
161 pages
Annotation
The 13 papers in this collection address several aspects of the Canadian community's role in crime prevention, considering employment programs, Indian offenders, environmental design, and restitution.
Abstract
Following the conference's keynote address by the Governor-General of Canada, the first presentation describes how a Quebec group organized a regional justice week to encourage citizen participation in crime prevention and reduce juvenile delinquency. Excerpts from a panel discussion by minority groups with little juvenile delinquency demonstrate attitudes toward family life and community responsibility. Another speaker contends that traditional prevention programs fail to redress social and economic inequities and thus do not help Canada's native peoples. A description of an employment program in Winnipeg illustrates its effectiveness in changing individual behavior patterns through job placement and counseling. The next paper examines the importance of administrative and policy control and the negative consequences of loss of such control for an Indian diversion project in Alberta. In the area of victim concerns, separate papers examine offender-victim reconciliation and restitution. Additional presentations discuss the problems of Indian adolescents in Canadian schools, environmental design concepts to prevent crime, and community efforts to combat organized crime. A religious leader explores the fairness of the Canadian justice system, while another speaker outlines a human service model that was developed by the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. Finally, the director of the Montreal Urban Community Police Department describes its history and crime prevention programs. French summaries or the complete text accompany the papers. Some figures and tables are included. For separate articles, see NCJ 83443, 84413, 84528, 86835, and 89746-47.