Judicial attitudes in assault cases involving alcohol or other drugs

Journal of Criminal Justice

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-286

  Macdonald, Scott ^a   Erickson, Patricia ^a   Allen, Barbara ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033130482     PISSN: 00472352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2352(98)00065-8     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Blumstein, A. (1993). Making rationality relevant - The American Society of Criminology 1992 presidential address. Criminology 31(1):1-16.
2. Bowden, P. (1993). A forensic psychiatrist's view. In Alcohol and Crime - Proceedings of a Mental Health Foundation Conference, ed. J. Russell. London: The Mental Health Foundation.
3. Caldwell, E. D., and Erickson, P. G. (1977). Drugs as a factor in delinquency proceedings. Crime and Justice 5(2):118-25.
4. Collins, J. J. (1989). Alcohol and interpersonal violence. In Pathways to Criminal Violence, eds. N. A. Weiner and M. E. Wolfgang. Mill Valley, CA: Sage Publications.
5. Collins, J. J. (1993). Alcohol and crime etiology. In Alcohol and Crime - Proceedings of a Mental Health Foundation Conference, ed. J. Russell. London: The Mental Health Foundation.
6. Dillman, D. A. (1983). Mail and other self-administered questionnaire. In Handbook of Survey Research, eds. P. H. Rossi, J. D. Wright, and A. B. Anderson. Toronto: Academic Press.
7. Dinovitzer, R. (1997). The myth of rapists and other normal men: The impact of psychiatric considerations on the sentencing of sexual assault offenders. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 12(1):147-69.
8. Erickson, P. G. (1974). The defence lawyer's role in juvenile court: An empirical investigation into judges' and social workers' points of view. University of Toronto Law Journal XXIV(2):126-148.
9. Erickson, P. G., Cohen, J., and Allen, B. (1996). Alcohol and Other Drugs in the Criminal Justice System. ARF Internal Document No. 123. Toronto, Canada: Addiction Research Foundation.
10. Gastwirth, J. L., and Nayak, T. K. (1997). Statistical aspects of cases concerning racial discrimination in drug sentencing. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 87(2): 583-603.
11. Hagan, J. (1974). Extralegal attributes and criminal sentencing: An assessment of sociological viewpoint. Law and Society Review 8(3):357-83.
12. Hagan, J. (1991). The Disreputable Pleasures: Crime and Deviance in Canada. 3d Ed. Toronto, Canada: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited.
13. Heller, D. J. (1995). Language bias in the criminal justice system. The Criminal Law Quarterly 37:344-82.
14. Hogarth, J. (1971). Sentencing as a Human Process. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
15. Hung, K., and Bowles, S. (1995). Public perceptions of crime. Juristat 15(1).
16. Jobson, K. B. (1976). Sentencing. In Crime and its Treatment in Canada, ed. W. T. McGrath. Toronto, Canada: Macmillian Publishing Co.
17. Le Dain (1972). Cannabis. Ottawa: Information Canada.
18. Meier, K. J. (1992). Race and the war on drugs: America's dirty little secret. Policy Currents 2(2).
19. Murray, G. F., and Erickson, P. G. (1983). Regional variation in criminal justice system practices: Cannabis possession in Ontario. Criminal Law Quarterly 26(1):74-96.
20. New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (1990). Sentencing assault offenders in the higher courts in New South Wales. Crime and Justice Bulletin 10, October.
21. Palys, T. S., and Divorski, S. (1986). Explaining sentence disparity. Canadian Journal of Criminology 28(4):347-62.
22. Potas, I., and Spears, D. (1994). Alcohol as a Sentencing Factor: A Survey of Attitudes of Judicial Officers. Sydney: Judicial Commission of New South Wales.
23. Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System. (1995). Toronto: Queen's Printer for Ontario.
24. Roberts, J. V., and Birkenmayer, A. (1997). Sentencing in Canada: Recent statistical trends. Canadian Journal of Criminology 39(Oct):457-82.
25. Runyon, R. P., and Haber, A. (1971). Fundamentals of Behavioral Statistics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
26. Ryan, S., and Sussmann, F. B. (1976). In Crime and its Treatment in Canada, ed. W. T. McGrath. Toronto, Canada: Macmillian Publishing Co.