Rethinking criminal accusation

Perhaps the time is ripe to rethink justice resourcing for the longer term, channelling some coffers away from retributive instruments and into programs seeking to change social relations that persistently yield destructive effects.

Canada's federal Justice Minister David Lametti, pictured Sept. 15, 2020, speaking with reporters at the prime minister's cabinet retreat in Ottawa before Parliament resumes on Sept. 15, 2020.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GEORGE PAVLICH

September 16, 2020

EDMONTON—Situated in cultures preoccupied with crime and marked by vast criminal justice institutions, many of us find it difficult to imagine how societies could possibly govern wrongdoing without criminalization. As a result, we rarely pause to contemplate the deep social effects of normalizing ...

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