The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail: "By CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail "

In a report on family violence, Juristat has linked police and criminal-court records and proved that very often, the more intimate the relationship between victim and criminal, the more likely is the violent offender to get a kiss of a sentence.

What the Juristat report does is demonstrate that the oft-ridiculed perception of Canadians that their courts are soft on crime is a factual reality when it comes to certain kinds of crimes and certain sorts of offenders.