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Anthony Doob

Anthony Doob, FRSC

Recent and forthcoming publications:

  • Webster, Cheryl Marie and Anthony N. Doob (In press: 2011). Searching for Sasquatch: Deterrence of Crime Through Sentence Severity. Oxford Handbook on Sentencing and Corrections.. Edited by Joan Petersilia and Kevin Reitz. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Rosemary Gartner, Anthony N. Doob, and Franklin E. Zimring (In Press: 2011). The Past as Prologue? Decarceration in California Then and Now. Criminology and Public Policy.
  • Sprott, Jane B. and Anthony N. Doob (2010). Gendered Treatment: Girls and Treatment Orders in Bail Court. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 52, 427-441.
  • Doob, Anthony N. and Jane B. Sprott. Understanding the Principled Arguments for Criminalizing Misbehaviour by Youths Under Twelve. In Anand, Sanjeev (ed). Children and the Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Bala. In press: Irwin Law (In press: 2011).
  • Webster, Cheryl Marie, Anthony N. Doob, and Nicole Myers (2009). The Parable of Ms. Baker: Understanding Pre-Trial Detention in Canada. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 21(1), 79-102.
  • Sprott, Jane B. and Anthony N. Doob (2009). Justice for Girls? Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems of the United States and Canada. University of Chicago Press.

Ongoing & Future Research

Professor Doob’s research interests include juvenile justice, the development of criminal justice policy in Canada, and public perception of crime and the justice system. At the present time, he is doing research on two quite separate topics. First, he is continuing his investigation of the manner in which the youth justice system processes young people. A book summarizing much of this work, written with Carla Cesaroni, was published in 2004. The current work examines the manner in which the operation of the youth justice system changed under the 2003 Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The second area in which he is working, in collaboration with Cheryl Webster, at the University of Ottawa, is in the area of cirminal justice punishment policies in Canada during the past half century. Canada, for at least the past 50 years, has had a relatively stable rate of imprisonment of adult offenders. At the same time, there have been quite dramatic changes in the rates of reported crime and in various policies related to sentencing. The most recent prodect of this program of research was published in the Law and Society Review in 2006.

Courses Taught:

  • CRI 3356H. Youth Crime and Youth Justice.
  • WDW 350Y. Research Methods in Criminology.