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Where is the Christian vision for grace and justice when it comes to crime and punishment?
From ChristianGovernance eletter, Sept. 11, 2012
Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint recently published some excellent commentaries on the outrageous injustices taking place in American prisons. Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship ministry is a recognized expert in this field.
Crime Stats: Who’s Fooling Whom?: Rod Taylor
Once again, Statistics Canada, using info generously contributed by police forces across the country, has issued this reassuring statistical commentary: “Canada’s crime rate in 2011 lowest since 1972” Who’s fooling whom? How many Canadians feel safer today than last year? Or the year before that? Or twenty years before that? The death of innocents still features in the news and the ringing of bullets still echoes in the consciousness of Canadians from the Eaton’s shootings, the Scarborough backyard party gone ballistic and the Colorado “Batman” shootings.