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    Unequal Before the Law: Immigrant and Racial Minority Perceptions of the Canadian Criminal Justice System

    This paper examines attitudes towards the criminal justice system among a large, diverse sample of residents from Toronto, Canada. The results indicate that while most residents positively evaluate the perform...

    Scot Wortley, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah in Journal of International Migration and Int… (2009)

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    Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada

    Canada has an international reputation for being a tolerant, diverse nation comprised of people from many racial, ethnic, cultural and religious groups. However, as with all heterogeneous countries, Canada has...

    Scot Wortley, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah in Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justic… (2012)

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    Years of life lost to incarceration: inequities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians

    Aboriginal representation in Canadian correctional institutions has increased rapidly over the past decade. We calculated “years of life lost to incarceration” for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.

    Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Steve Kanters, Eric Druyts, Kabirraaj Toor in BMC Public Health (2014)

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    Distribution of legal retail cannabis stores in Canada by neighbourhood deprivation

    In legal cannabis markets, the distribution of retail stores has the potential to influence transitions from illegal to legal sources as well as consumer patterns of use. The current study examined the distrib...

    Fathima Fataar, Pete Driezen, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah in Journal of Cannabis Research (2024)