It costs a lot of money to provide treatment in a residential facility for children facing mental health issues. For a typical 6 - 8 month stay, costs can range from $20,000 to $38,400. But Social Work professors at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) found that after spending these resources, it still doesn't seem to provide enough support to help kids transition from the treatment program back to their normal lives.

In a recent report, Why Canadian Crime Statistics Don't Add Up: Not the Whole Truth, written for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, author Scott Newark argues that violent crime has actually increased in Canada despite Statistics Canada reporting a decrease in violent crimes for the past decade.

Measuring trends and services over time and within consistent categories is a strength that makes Correctional Services Canada reports a fascinating read. No, seriously! It's true!

Does watching real-life crime stories increase your fear of crime or do you watch real life crime stories because you are afraid of crime? This question remains after reading Watching the Detectives: Crime programming, fear of crime, and attitudes about the criminal justice system. Researched and written by university professors Lisa Kort-Butler and Keller Hartshorn, this study shows a relationship between fear of crime and the type of television program people watch.

The ongoing conversation about crime, data, fear of crime, and the combination of all three, has always been a matter of much public debate.

Mark Twain popularized the phrase “there are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics”.  Now, over 100 years later, the volume of information and the number of statistics we are exposed to has dramatically in