UFV Criminology and Criminal Justice
Dec. 13 marks the 25th anniversary of Canada’s ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most universally accepted human rights instrument in history. Countries around the world, with Canada in the lead, recognized then that children under 18 have the same rights as adults to be safe, secure, protected, healthy … Read more
Despite the fact that the homicide rate of non-indigenous women in Canada is declining, a 2014 report from the RCMP found that the homicide rate for indigenous women remains static. The same report identified a total of 1,181 missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. Please read the article here.
When parents are sent to prison, their children are often sentenced to suffering. That was the conclusion of a study by criminology and social work researchers at the University of the Fraser Valley last year.
Please find the final report here.