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New Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice Advance Online articles now available... <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/120324/?Content+Status=Accepted> http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/120324/?Content+Status=Accepted Taming Disorderly People One Ticket at a Time: The Penalization of Homelessness in Ontario and British Columbia Catherine T. Chesnay, Céline Bellot and Marie-Ève Sylvestre In the last two decades, provincial and local governments in Canada took a new series of measures to regulate urban disorder and control how public spaces were used by homeless people. Ontario became the first province to adopt new legislation with the passage of the Safe Streets Act, 1999. British Columbia soon followed the same path and enacted its own Safe Streets Act in 2004. This article focuses on the enforcement of the Safe Streets Act in Ontario and BC. Using quantitative data on tickets delivered to homeless people, it examines the extent of the penalization of homeless populations and establishes trends in the application of these statutes in both provinces. It concludes that the application reflects tensions around the visibility of homeless people in public spaces, particularly relating to squeegeeing, in both Ontario and British Columbia. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x2351wgr10m82r46/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a1 fbda1c10be5846ab5 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x2351wgr10m82r46/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a 1fbda1c10be5846ab5&pi=0> &pi=0 Le déploiement des caméras de surveillance dans les rues et autres espaces publics au Canada : Au-delà des stratégies d'opposition et d'encadrement Christian Boudreau Le présent article porte sur le déploiement des caméras de surveillance dans les rues et autres espaces publics au Canada. À partir d'une recherche documentaire étendue, l'auteur s'attache d'abord à faire le lien entre le timide déploiement des caméras de surveillance dans les rues au Canada et les stratégies d'opposition et d'encadrement efficaces adoptées jusqu'à présent par divers acteurs sociaux. Il montre ensuite que les rapports de force entre partisans et adversaires des caméras de surveillance n'expliquent pas tout, et que le déploiement de la vidéosurveillance dans les divers lieux accessibles au public va bon train, le plus souvent sans rencontrer d'opposition. Plusieurs phénomènes sociaux, économiques et technologiques, en particulier la revitalisation des quartiers centraux, la médiatisation des crimes violents, les innovations en matière de vidéosurveillance et l'utilisation des caméras de surveillance dans les enquêtes policières, participent à ce déploiement. En conclusion, l'auteur insiste sur la nécessité de revoir la gouvernance des systèmes de surveillance dans les lieux publics en général afin d'éviter de possibles dérives. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x63t867443263874/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a1 fbda1c10be5846ab5 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x63t867443263874/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a 1fbda1c10be5846ab5&pi=1> &pi=1 Questioning Canadian Criminal Incidence Rates: A Re-analysis of the 2004 Canadian Victimization Survey Zavin Nazaretian and David M. Merolla This article re-analyses official 2004 criminal incidence rates in Canada. Currently, official incidence rates are calculated using a technique known as capping, meaning that any respondent can represent a maximum of three incidents per crime type, regardless of how many incidents the individual reports. Given that research on other victimization surveys has cast doubt on the practice of capping, this research assesses the effects of capping in the Canadian Victimization Survey. Findings illustrate that there is significant cause to question the way in which official incidence rates are calculated. Specifically, this research shows that violent crime increases by 87% and household crime increases by 36% when all reported incidents are included. This pattern not only underscores the importance of understanding how incidence rates are produced but also suggests that capping may ignore genuine incidents because individuals who are victims of violent crimes are the most likely to be repeatedly victimized. These findings indicate numerous rates should be published, and more research needs to be conducted to understand recall in victimization surveys and determine the most accurate methods for incidence rate estimation. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d71761012u133401/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a1 fbda1c10be5846ab5 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d71761012u133401/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a 1fbda1c10be5846ab5&pi=2> &pi=2 The Criminal Offence of Entering Any Shoppers Drug Mart in Ontario: Criminalizing Ordinary Behaviour with Youth Bail Conditions Nicole M. Myers and Sunny Dhillon Conditions of release are attached to bail orders in an attempt to constrain the behaviour of accused young persons in the community. However, each condition, by virtue of its attachment to the release order, creates the possibility of a new criminal offence. Should youths fail to comply with any one of the conditions, they can have their bail revoked; they may not be released again; and they can be charged with the criminal offence of not complying with a judicial order. This study looks at the bail conditions placed on 83 youths released by justices of the peace from four different courthouses in the metropolitan area of Toronto, Ontario. On average 9.3 conditions were imposed and over 40% of the youths had more than 10 conditions attached to their release order. Many of the conditions that were routinely imposed had little or no relationship to the grounds for detention and facts of the alleged offence. Overall, 40.7% of conditions imposed had no apparent connection, 21.5% had an ambiguous connection, and 37.8% had a clear connection to the allegations or grounds for detention. Rather than exercising restraint and crafting narrow conditions that were clearly related to the grounds for detention and the facts of the alleged offence, conditions were generally vague and far reaching. The result of such practices is infringements on the liberty of legally innocent youths. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h8341766r1421861/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a1 fbda1c10be5846ab5 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h8341766r1421861/?p=ee89ef9b6a4b4a 1fbda1c10be5846ab5&pi=3> &pi=3 University of Toronto Press Journals Advance Online... Early access to the latest research Articles published online ahead of print issue publication have become a staple in many fields where new research is being published at a fast rate. To meet the challenges of the current academic publishing world, articles accepted for publication can now be copy-edited, typeset, and posted online immediately through UTP Journals Advance Online. 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