David P. Cole is a Provincial Court Judge in Scarborough, Ontario, who has considerable background in penal and parole litigation. Julian V. Roberts is Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology. He previously worked for the Department of Justice Canada and the Canadian Sentencing commission.
[Cole and Roberts'] edited compendium chiefly focuses on topical and sometimes pressing and contentious sentencing issues which are critically located, engaged, and dissected by an impressive array of judges, lawyers, criminologists and legal scholars. The editors rightly characterize their overarching methodology as multidisciplinary . Dedicated criminal law practitioners seeking creative approaches to effective sentencing will be well served by the abundance of empirical data, scholarly resources and inspiring arguments that populate this book.--Justice Melvyn Green, Criminal Law Quarterly, Vol. 69, 148-55