Thematic Collection: Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research
The Centre for Criminology Library holds an extensive collection of grey literature that compiles various stakeholder perspectives on critical criminology.
This collection focuses on materials that examine how various stakeholders thought about, discussed, and analyzed policies and opinions on crime, crime prevention, and the penal system from the late 1940s to the early 2000s.
For researchers, this collection provides a valuable review of underrepresented or difficult to find materials, which highlight a more critical examination of the Canadian criminal justice system, and advocacy for social justice and equity.
Image Caption: Covers of three different resources from the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research collection.
Some examples of these resources include:
- "Turning the inside out: On limiting the use of imprisonment", by Richard V. Ericson in the Community Education Series, published by the John Howard Society of Ontario (1974)
- "Crime prevention through social development", national workshop report by the Canadian Council on Social Development and Canadian Criminal Justice Association (1987)
- "Access to justice and equality of treatment", report prepared by Jean-Paul Brodeur for The Law Reform Commission of Canada (1991)
- "The prison industrial complex", by Eric Schlosser in The Atlantic Monthly (1998)
- Minutes of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Services Board meeting on the Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System (1996)
For a full record of the materials that the library holds pertaining to this topic, please refer to the grey literature finding aid (PDF.).