Steven Kohm's 'Annual Review Of Interdisciplinary Justice Research'

he Annual Review of
Interdisciplinary Justice Research
Volume 4, Fall 2014

Edited by
Steven Kohm he University of Winnipeg
Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies (CIJS)

ISSN 1925-2420

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Educating Justice: Postsecondary Education in the Justice
Disciplines. Steven Kohm, Kelly Gorkof, Richard Jochelson, and Kevin Walby ............................................................................ 5
Articles
Of Big Tents and Handmaidens: he Origins and Evolution of
Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Curt T. Griiths and Ted Palys .........................................................................................
(pp.19-20)
Fattah’s vision emphasized ongoing interaction with criminal justice institutions, ofering the analogy that, just as budding physicians need to see real patients so that they can
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understand what real symptoms look like and carve appropriate diagnoses, so, too, must students of criminology have exposure to “juvenile delinquents and adult ofenders and to observe the criminal justice machinery in action”
(1972, pp.29-30). he general model foresaw the “professionalization” of the criminal justice workforce by providing an analysis of crime and its control within an empirically-driven discourse that considered justice issues in a broader historical and cultural context.
One issue considered was whether to begin with a graduate or undergraduate program. Fattah saw no distinct advantage either way in the abstract, but thought “local considerations” called for an undergraduate program irst. In his view, BC’s existing and prospective criminal justice workforce was not yet ready for graduate-level programming; the more immediate need was for a broadly-based undergraduate education that would provide entry-level qualiications for
It was a thoughtful lament that recognized the possibility for reform that a critical analysis of the justice system might aford, while simultaneously expressing concern about a criminology program’s potentially oppressive impact. It concluded, “I don’t trust us with it” (p.4).
On 3 February 1975 at a meeting of the Faculty Senate, a motion was made that Senate approve the criminology curriculum. A inal disciplinary-based concern was brought forth when the Chair of Chemistry expressed his department’s reservations about the proposed “Criminalistics and Forensic Science” course, suggesting that one course was actually too little to cover the ield and would need a more scientiic foundation than criminology likely could provide; Fattah withdrew the course with the suggestion that the area might be more fully developed at a later date (Minutes, 17 December 1974). he students had the inal word as the proposal went to