The Interface Between Dangerous Offender Sentencing and Psychiatry

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Andy Bickle
Keyword(s):  
Dangerous Offender

scholarly journals Modèles de dangerosité : les contrevenants sexuels et la loi

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Petrunik
Keyword(s):  
Violent Offenders ◽  
Dangerous Offender ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Protection ◽  
Forms Of Violence

The history of dangerous offender legislation reveals a selective focus on few sexual and violent offenders many of whom are not demonstrably more dangerous than most of the offenders from the larger pool of sexual and violent offenders from which they are drawn. To the extent such legislation draws attention from routine frequently occuring forms of violence in favour of the violence of a few predatory offenders it is clearly problematic. Nonetheless, there are good reasons such legislation is likely to be retained and perhaps modified to place a greater emphasis on community protection.

Social Defence and Control of the Dangerous Offender

1968 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ll. J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Dangerous Offender ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Solutions to the problem of the dangerous offender.

BMJ ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (5945) ◽  
pp. 640-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
P D Scott
Keyword(s):  
Dangerous Offender

scholarly journals An Evaluation of Canada's Dangerous Offender Legislation

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-426
Author(s):  
Jacques J. M. Shore
Keyword(s):  
Dangerous Offender

L'auteur s'intéresse dans cet article à la partie XXI du Code criminel relative aux délinquants dangereux. L'évolution historique des dispositions législatives concernées est tracée à l'aide d'une comparaison avec la législation en vigueur en 1977. Les problèmes juridiques découlant de ces dispositions et les objectifs de la législation sont ensuite présentés ainsi que la procédure spécifique d'obtention d'une sentence de période indéterminée. L'auteur décrit les difficultés d'application de la loi et identifie certains résultats incongrus transparaissant de la jurisprudence récente. De plus, l'impact potentiel des articles 1, 9, 11 et 12 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés sur la partie XXI du Code criminel est évoqué. L'auteur critique les procédures de remise en liberté des délinquants dangereux et suggère que les tribunaux plutôt que la Commission nationale des libérations conditionnelles soient habilités à rescinder une sentence de période indéterminée. L'article conclut en recommandant que les dispositions existantes de la loi relatives aux délinquants dangereux soient abrogées et qu'un nouveau régime sentenciel, excluant l'option d'une sentence pour une période indéterminée, soit établi. L'auteur suggère également, advenant que la législation actuelle relative aux délinquants dangereux perdure, que soient réévaluées les règles de preuve et d'audition responsables de l'échec du système existant.

The Role of Canadian Psychiatry in Dangerous Offender Testimony

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rogers ◽  
Elizabeth Lynett
Keyword(s):  
Dangerous Offender

The Incapacitation of the Dangerous Offender: A Statistical Experiment

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Van Dine ◽  
Simon Dinitz ◽  
John Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Experiment ◽  
Dangerous Offender

Governing Through Remorse: The Discursive Framing of Dangerous Offenders in Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Linda Mussell ◽  
Michael Orsini
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Dangerous Offender ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Dangerous Offenders ◽  
The Media

Abstract This article examines the emotional terrain and discursive frames that govern the constitution of those subject to the “dangerous offender” (DO) designation in Canada. Focusing on the emotion of remorse, we discuss four narratives involving individuals who went through the DO hearing process, gaining significant media attention. Asking what role Indigeneity and other factors play in how the media discuss the emotional comportment of DOs, we examine the persistence of particular discursive frames in these narratives, and the counter-frames that challenge or disrupt dominant understandings of what it is appropriate to feel. The expression of emotion, and its interpretation, can be critical to the outcome of cases, criminalized people/survivor stigmatization, and normalization of punishment and may also motivate community mobilization and prompt policy change. Yet, emotion, and how it may be performed and interpreted differently, is not well understood or discussed in these narratives.

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