Findings on the overall degree of support for CR and variables that predict CR attitudes are also presented. This article describes a community-based sexual offender management protocol combining parole supervision and relapse prevention treatment. These results are discussed in comparison to results recently reported by other treatment sites. Raymond R. Corrado, Candice Odgers, and Irwin M. Cohen School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia Female young offenders have recently come to the forefront of both media and policy attention. As this article will demonstrate, despite isolated incidents of violence, the majority of offending by female youth in custody is relatively minor.
Results indicate that most of the offences that young women are serving time for are administrative.
Moreover, it appears as though the primary rationale for sentencing these females to custody is protective in nature. In recent years the Canadian criminal justice system has been plagued by a number of high profile wrongful convictions. While each of these cases has raised serious questions concerning the justice process as a whole, particular attention has been directed towards the police and their ability to satisfy their dual mandate of investigating crime while protecting the interests, rights, and freedoms of the accused. One notable aspect of police operations that has come under increasing scrutiny in this regard is the police interrogation, a practice which is both upheld by police officers as a crucial means of gathering information and disposing of cases, and denounced by civil rights advocates as a serious threat to the standards of fairness and due process. In adopting the police interrogation as its object of study, this paper will argue that each of these characterizations are severely limited, and ultimately, misrepresentative of the more subtle functions of interrogative practices.