Criminal Law – Sentencing

• Annual review of criminal law (available online) Table of Contents
• Criminal Law: evidence, practice and procedure (available online) by John L. Gibson Table of Contents
  Chapter 54 provides commentary on procedural aspects of sentencing proceedings.
• Criminal pleadings and practice in Canada (available online), 3rd ed. by Eugene G. Ewaschuk Table of Contents
• Guide to conducting sentencing hearings in Canada by Gregory Koturbash Table of Contents
• Handling summary conviction offences by the Hon. Justice Rick Libman Table of Contents
• Justice in aboriginal communities : sentencing alternatives by Ross Gordon Green Table of Contents
• The law of sentencing (available online) by Allan Manson Table of Contents.
• Sentence calculation : an example of the basics of sentence calculation with examples (available online) by Government of Canada. Table of Contents
• Sentencing, 10th ed. by Clayton C. Ruby Table of Contents
• Sentencing and penal policy in Canada : cases, materials and commentary, 4th ed. by Allan Manson, Julian Roberts & Gary Trotter et al… Table of Contents
• Sentencing in Canada : essays in law, policy, and practice (available online) by David Cole & Julian Roberts Table of Contents.
• Sentencing : the practitioner’s guide (available online) by Gary R. Clewley & Paul G. McDermott Table of Contents
• The sentencing code of Canada : principles & objectives by Gilles Renaud Table of Contents
• Sentencing : principles and practice (available online), 2nd by Danielle Robitaille & Erin Winocur Table of Contents.
• Sentencing : practical approaches by T.W. Ferris. Table of Contents
• Sentencing principles procedure and practice, 2024, 4th ed. by Lyndon Harris & Sebastian Walker Table of Contents
• Sentencing ranges for criminal offences by Clayton Ruby & Shelia Nemet-Brown Table of Contents
• Speaking to sentence : a practical guide by Gilles Renaud Table of Contents

Last revised Sept. 5, 2024

• Canadian sentencing digest : quantum service (available online) by R. Paul Nadin-Davis & Clarey Sproule Table of Contents
• Canada criminal sentencing digest, 2nd ed. by Sheila Nemet-Brown Table of Contents
• Canada Sentencing Quantums E-Resource available through: LexisAdvance® Quicklaw®
• Rangefindr.ca – E-Resource used to find criminal sentencing ranges
• Martin’s annual criminal code (available online) by J.C. Martin Table of Contents  Includes an Offence Grid which visually shows whether an offence is indictable, summary or hybrid, maximum/minimum sentences, available sentencing options, and illegal sentences.
• Tremeear’s criminal code: and the following related ctatutes, Canada Evidence Act, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Food and Drugs Act, Narcotic Control Act, Young Offenders Act (available online) by David Watt & Michelle Fuerst Table of Contents Includes an Offence Grid

Last revised Sept. 5, 2024

• Prosecuting and defending youth criminal justice cases, (available online) 3rd ed. by Justice Brock Jones et al Table of Contents
• Youth criminal justice law, (available online) 3rd ed. by Nicholas Bala & Sanjeev Anand Table of Contents
• Youth criminal justice act manual (available online) by Peter J. Harris & Miriam H. Bloomenfeld Table of Contents
  Commentary and digests are provided on sentencing principles and the sanctions possible under the YCJA. Also included are digests organized by offence. Also available online
• A cuide to the Youth Criminal Justice Act by Lee Tustin Table of Contents

Last revised Sept. 5, 2024

• Drug offences in Canada, (available online) 4th ed. by Bruce A. MacFarlane, Robert J. Frater & Croft Michaelson Table of Contents
• Prosecuting and defending drug offences, 2nd ed. by Peter M. Brauti & Brian G. Puddington Table of Contents
• Prosecuting and defending drug cases, (available online) 2nd ed. by Nathan Gorham et al. Table of Contents
• Sentencing drug offenders (available online) by Simon Armstrong Table of Contents

Last revised Sept. 5, 2024

• Weapons offences manual (available online) by Peter Harris & Miriam Bloomenfeld Table of Contents

Last revised Sept. 5, 2024

A collection of the judgments of the Alberta Courts is available from CanLII. The official version of the reasons for judgment is the signed original or handwritten endorsement in the court file. If there is a question about the content of a judgment, the original court file takes precedence.

• CanLII – Alberta Court of Justice
• CanLII – Court of King’s Bench
• CanLII – Court of Appeal

Canadian encyclopedic digest (C.E.D.) (Western), 4th ed.

Sections related to Sentencing include:

• Sentencing. 
• Youth Criminal Justice. 

The CED provides discussion of these areas of law with annotations to legislation and case law.  Additional information may be found by searching the indexes or database using the keywords “Sentence”, “Sentencing”, “Offence”, “Imprisonment’, “Fines”, “Probation”, “Suspended” and “Alternative measures”.

Also available online through: Westlaw Canada

• Index to Canadian legal literature (ICLL) available electronically on Westlaw Canada and Lexis Advance® Quicklaw®
• Current index to legal periodicals – Available electronically on HeinOnline

Additional full-text articles are available electronically through:

• vLex Justis
• Lexis Advance® Quicklaw®
• Westlaw Canada – contains a collection of Canadian journals and law reviews, as well as all articles and case comments appearing in Carswell law reports.
• HeinOnline – provides full-text access to Canadian and international law reviews and legal journals.