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  • 4 - Territory Widening

  • from Part II - Expansion
  • Marie-Eve Sylvestre, University of Ottawa, Nicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Céline Bellot, Université de Montréal
  • Book:
    Red Zones
    Published online:
    06 February 2020
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 59-104

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 explores recent trends in the administration of justice, using extensive court data obtained from Montreal and Vancouver. It also provides the opportunity to explain in some detail the current legal framework governing bail and community sentences in Canada and contrast it with legal practices elsewhere. The data reveal the widespread prevalence of territorial conditions of release at all stages of criminal proceedings, including at bail, where they should by law be exceptional. Such conditions, in turn, generate numerous breaches, which constitute criminal offences against the administration of justice. Echoing the concept of “net widening” (Cohen, 1979; 1985), this chapter suggests that conditions of release have directly contributed to a form of “judicial territory widening”, leading to the enlargement and expansion of the criminal justice system, affecting particularly marginalized populations.