Cheryl Webster is a professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa. Her research has concentrated on the effectiveness of general deterrence as applied to sentencing, a comparative analysis of policies related to imprisonment in Canada and abroad, and an examination of trends in pre-trial detention.
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