Douglas College and the New Westminster Museum collaborated to host the Tick-Talk: Crime and Consequences Student Conference, which featured criminology students' presentations on a variety of crime, justice, and social issues. Adopting a fast-paced presentation format, students raised key issues and challenges, described personal experiences, and disseminated unique ideas in a public forum. Presentation topics included the right to legal representation, the over representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s criminal justice system, youth justice policy, and connections between mental health and criminal justice. The conference also included several discussion sessions that generated valuable dialogue among students, academics, practitioners, and members of the public. --- Crime committed by young women has been increasing over the past several decades and researchers have few answers as to why. What is known about female offenders is that the vast majority of young women entering the criminal justice system have experienced sexual, physical and drug abuse, and mental illness. Rachelle Younie discussed the use of non-profit after-school programs, including their role in decreasing crime rates and their cost-effectiveness, as well as the harms of prison environments, including worsening mental health, increasing gang involvement and removing youth from prosocial connections. Criminal behaviour is a product of a number of sociological, psychological and economic disadvantages. Young women need positive resources to repair the underlying issues that led to their criminality, not to be punished for their upbringings.
Douglas College and the New Westminster Museum collaborated to host the Tick-Talk: Crime and Consequences Student Conference, which featured criminology students' presentations on a variety of crime, justice, and social issues. Adopting a fast-paced presentation format, students raised key issues and challenges, described personal experiences, and disseminated unique ideas in a public forum. Presentation topics included the right to legal representation, the over representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s criminal justice system, youth justice policy, and connections between mental health and criminal justice. The conference also included several discussion sessions that generated valuable dialogue among students, academics, practitioners, and members of the public. --- Bogdan Maksimcev presented on the right to defence counsel within the Canadian legal system. Maksimcev outlined the legal rights of Canadians and discussed the role of defence counsel in people's lives, arguing that every person should have fair access to justice.
Douglas College and the New Westminster Museum collaborated to host the Tick-Talk: Crime and Consequences Student Conference, which featured criminology students' presentations on a variety of crime, justice, and social issues. Adopting a fast-paced presentation format, students raised key issues and challenges, described personal experiences, and disseminated unique ideas in a public forum. Presentation topics included the right to legal representation, the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s criminal justice system, youth justice policy, and connections between mental health and criminal justice. The conference also included several discussion sessions that generated valuable dialogue among students, academics, practitioners, and members of the public. --- Rebecca Lambert presented on youth incarceration and the reality for troubled youth within Canada's youth criminal justice system. Lambert argued that incarcerated youth are not being adequately prepared for reintegration, and called for appropriate disciplinary measures, transition and reintegration programs, and further resources to help incarcerated youth develop personally and professionally.
Douglas College and the New Westminster Museum collaborated to host the Tick-Talk: Crime and Consequences Student Conference, which featured criminology students' presentations on a variety of crime, justice, and social issues. Adopting a fast-paced presentation format, students raised key issues and challenges, described personal experiences, and disseminated unique ideas in a public forum. Presentation topics included the right to legal representation, the over representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s criminal justice system, youth justice policy, and connections between mental health and criminal justice. The conference also included several discussion sessions that generated valuable dialogue among students, academics, practitioners, and members of the public. --- Katherine Mrowka presented on the history of bank robberies, specifically the prevalence of armed bank robberies in New Westminster in the 1970s. Mrowka compared this criminal activity to today's steep decline in bank robberies and examined modern banking security.
