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SOC 327

Criminal Justice Administration in Canada

3 units

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Canada’s Criminal Justice System
  • Canada’s Charter
  • Policing: History, Structure, + Organization
  • Policing: Oversight and Accountability
  • Key Players: Lawyers and Judges
  • The Criminal Court Process + Sentencing
  • Institutional Corrections: Experiences, Overrepresentation, and Prisoner’s Rights
  • Conditional Release
  • Community Corrections
  • Wrongful Convictions
  • Responding to People with Mental Illnesses
  • Drugs and the Criminal Justice System
  • Youth Justice
  • Corporate Crime and Intimate Partner Violence
  • Victim Rights
  • Prison Abolition
  • Critically situating individual experience within broader social contexts and relationships
  • Understanding how power contributes to marginalization and the implications of these processes for criminal justice practices

Readings

  • Roberts, J.V., & Grossman, M.G. (2025). Criminal justice in Canada: A reader (7th edition)
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  • Significant changes have been made since the previous publication. The most recent edition is required for this class
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Winter 2026

Topics

  • Understand the various components of the criminal justice system and how they relate to and interact with one another
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