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Sentencing and Parole for Persons Convicted of Murder
From: Sentencing in Canada
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Chapter 10 narrows its focus to address the sentencing and parole for persons convicted of murder. The chapter begins by debunking some myths about murder and goes on to address current trends and issues in Canada. These including murder trials for Youth and Indigenous persons, and sentencing for “Compassionate Homicide”.
Contributors
Mary E. Campbell
Mary E Campbell is a lawyer (LLM McGill) and human rights advocate with expertise in sentencing, corrections, and community reintegration. She retired as director general of the Corrections and Criminal Justice Directorate in the federal Department of Public Safety Canada, having provided advice and support for more than twenty-nine years to fourteen ministers on a broad range of domestic and international program, policy, research, and legislative issues. Campbell now works pro bono with persons under sentence and post-sentence and with non- profit organizations. She also writes on current corrections issues, provides expert testimony in legal actions, advises governments, and participates in judicial education.
David Cole
David Cole was called to the Ontario bar in 1975. He then practised as a defence counsel for sixteen years, specializing in legal issues relating to prisoners and parolees. Judge Cole was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in 1991. From October 1992 to 1996, he was seconded to act as co-chair of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System. Over the period 2018–20, he has been seconded to conduct an independent review of the use of segregation in Ontario’s correctional facilities, with particular attention to the issues confronting mentally ill prisoners detained on remand or after sentencing. Judge Cole has taught sentencing courses at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; and the Centre for Criminology, University of Toronto. He is the co-author of Release from Imprisonment: The Law of Sentencing, Parole and Judicial Review (Carswell, with A Manson, 1991) and the co-editor of Making Sense of Sentencing (University of Toronto Press, with JV Roberts, 1999).
