Papers by Michael Petrunik
International Criminal Justice Review, Mar 1, 2007
Canadian journal of criminology, Apr 1, 1991
Canadian Review of Social Policy Revue Canadienne De Politique Sociale, Nov 1, 1998
Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities
International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 2002
This article compares the community protection-risk management model for the control of sex offen... more This article compares the community protection-risk management model for the control of sex offenders with the clinical and justice models that preceded it and with a restorative justice alternative based on the principle of community reintegration. The author discusses how this community protection-risk management model reflects the new penology as well as the fusion of panopticism and synopticism. The author also discusses the model's actual and potential social costs. He concludes with a brief look at circles of support and accountability. This Canadian approach involves setting up support circles of volunteers who enter into a covenant with persons designated as high-risk sex offenders to help them both to integrate into the community and to reduce the likelihood that they will reoffend.
Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 1980
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 2008
Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2006
The first edition of Anne Worrall’s single-authored book, Punishment in the Community: The Future... more The first edition of Anne Worrall’s single-authored book, Punishment in the Community: The Future of Criminal Justice, was published by Addison Wesley Longman in 1997. Although not written as a textbook, it was greeted with enthusiasm by those of us teaching probation students on Diploma in Social Work programmes. At that time, there was a dearth of books that provided a critical commentary on policy and practice debates in the Probation Service or challenged the widely held belief that punishment through imprisonment was central to the sentencing of offenders. In short, the book put the work of the Probation Service into a theoretical context and was ground-breaking in critically appraising its changing role. Since its publication, there have been an increasing number of critical texts commentating on similar debates. This is acknowledged by the authors and details of those published prior to the end of 2004 are listed in this second edition. So what is new in this second edition? What is up-dated? What remains the same? In reverse order, what remains the same is the theoretical framework on which the book is based and its basic structure: Part 1 addresses ‘The Principle and Politics of Punishment in the Community’ and Part 2 ‘The Changing Role of the Probation Service’. Nine of the 11 chapters have been up-dated and two have been re-written. The up-dating includes adding additional referencing and statistics, the latter offering a grim reminder of the need to challenge constantly the numbers sentenced to custody in England and Wales. A comparison of the statistics in the first and second editions shows that fewer than 70,000 people were sent to prison in 1994 compared to 112,000 in 2002. However, those receiving a supervised community penalty also rose from around 130,000 in 1994 to 180,000 in 2002, demonstrating that the so-called ‘soft option’ of community sentences is increasingly utilized by judges and magistrates. Chapters 4 and 11, ‘Constructing the Punishing Community under New Labour’ and ‘The Future of Punishment in the Community’ respectively, are the two chapters that have been largely re-written and this was a wise decision. It B O O K R E V I E W S
Contemporary Justice Review, 2007
This article is an examination of the Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) initiative in ... more This article is an examination of the Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) initiative in Canada as a community response to the release of high‐risk, warrant‐expired sex offenders. In this paper, we examine the socio‐political context in which the COSA initiative emerged and provide a theoretical analysis of the underlying philosophy of the program. Conceptual links are drawn between the practice of COSA and Braithwaite and Mugford’s 14 conditions of successful reintegration ceremonies and, drawing on our experiences as volunteers with a COSA initiative in a Canadian city, we suggest three best practice conditions for the creation of successful circles. We also show how COSA balances its twin, sometimes competing, objectives: ‘No one is disposable’ and ‘No more victims.’
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2003
In both the United States and Canada, a community protection approach to the perceived enduring d... more In both the United States and Canada, a community protection approach to the perceived enduring dangerousness of sex offenders has emerged since the 1980s, in response to several high profile cases involving the sexual assault and murder or mutilation of young children. The key elements in this community protection approach are sex offender registration and tracking, community notification, and post-sentence controls in the form of civil commitment, peace bonds, and community surveillance. This paper compares the different trajectories community protection has taken in the United States and in Canada and offers an explanation for the relatively slower and more cautious approach taken by the Canadian federal government, compared to the rapid, aggressive approach taken in the United States at both a federal and state level.
The Cambridge Law Journal, 1988
Great Britain, and it can be confidently recommended to those in the southern part who wish to br... more Great Britain, and it can be confidently recommended to those in the southern part who wish to broaden their horizons.
American Journal of Sociology, 1981
Choice Reviews Online, 1989
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American Journal of Police, 1995
Takes a random sample of 156 respondents from municipal and rural police forces in Canada to exam... more Takes a random sample of 156 respondents from municipal and rural police forces in Canada to examine the relationship between various factors concerning their careers. Finds that a significant number of officers perceive their career orientation to have changed over time. Presents findings on social activists, enforcers, careerists, specialists and self investors. Differs from previous research linking career orientation to personality type by seeing career orientation as changing with time, stages of career and circumstances. Remarks that policing needs to be technically sophisticated, cost‐effective, community‐based and sensitive to the realities of a multicultural society. Recommends that police departments consider the career orientation of recruits and establish a reward structure suited to the varied career types
International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 2008
Continental European and Anglo-American jurisdictions differ with regard to criminal justice and ... more Continental European and Anglo-American jurisdictions differ with regard to criminal justice and community responses to sex offenders on an exclusion-inclusion spectrum ranging from community protection measures on one end to therapeutic programs in the middle and restorative justice measures on the other end. In the United States, populist pressure has resulted in a community protection approach exemplified by sex offender registration, community notification, and civil commitment of violent sexual predators. Although the United Kingdom and Canada have followed, albeit more cautiously, the American trend to adopt exclusionist community protection measures, these countries have significant community-based restorative justice initiatives, such as Circles of Support and Accountability. Although sex offender crises have recently occurred in continental Europe, a long-standing tradition of the medicalization of deviance, along with the existence of social structural buffers against the ...
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