Administration (Recent Highlights)

Professor and Director of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University since September 1998.  Associate Director, Undergraduate Programmes 1991 – 1998.

Associate Member of the Department of Gerontology and Chair of the Management Committee for the Gerontology Research Centre since 2003.

Founding member and, until recently, Co-Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice in the School of Criminology.

Member of the Management Committee of the newly created Centre for Forensic Research at Simon Fraser University.

Member of the Eastern Europe Adult Guardianship Law Reform Project Advisory Board since 2002.  The project is housed in the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and involves an audit of adult guardianship legislation and systems in the new and prospective European Union countries.  The project is supported by the Council of Europe, the European Commission on Human Rights, and the Open Society Institute.

Member of  the Senate of Simon Fraser University.  Member of the Senate Committee on Continuing Studies.  Chair of the Senate Committee on Academic Integrity in Student Learning and Evaluation.

Member of the Board of Directors of Simon Fraser University Publications.

Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Teaching (Summary)

Undergraduate courses on corporate crime and corporate regulation; theories of crime and criminality; law, youth and young offenders; and adult guardianship and health law.

Graduate courses on criminal justice policy, and on criminological theory and the philosophy and sociology of the social sciences. 

Research (Summary)

My current research is concentrated in three main areas:

• The law relating to adult guardianship and substitute decision-making, adult protection, planning for incapability and related issues
• Health law, including mental health law.
• Criminal business organizations, street gangs, and similar entities.

Other research interests include

• Corporate crime and corporate regulation, particularly corporate "crimes" against the environment, and the regulation of competitive practices.
• Crime and tourism: tourists as offenders; and tourists as victims.
• Restorative justice.
• Police organization and police practices.

Current Government Consultation (Summary)

Consultant to the Ministry of the Attorney-General (B.C.).  Recent work has included new legislation governing admissions to care facilities and the use of restraint in facilities (Bill 26/2007), new legislation governing the creation of personal planning documents and a redraft of Part 2 of the provincial Adult Guardianship Act  (Bill 29/2007).

Past work has included drafting (with Legislative Counsel) the Adult Guardianship Act, the Representation Agreement Act, the Public Guardian and Trustee Act, and the Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act, and the preparation of numerous reports on aspects of adult guardianship and mental health law as well as reforms with respect to key areas of provincial health law (e.g., Health Act, Human Tissue Gift Act).  The work included drafting the regulations to the guardianship legislation package.

Consultant services in the guardianship and substitute decision-making areas have also been provided to other Canadian jurisdictions most recently to the Yukon Territory Government.  New legislation was passed by the Yukon Legislative Assembly in December 2003 and came into force in 2005. 

Professional Associations

Member, the American Society for Criminology.

Member, the Canadian Criminal Justice Association.

Member, the Canadian Association for Gerontology.

Member, the International Academy of Law and Mental Health.

Member, the Western Society for Criminology.

Publications (Recent)

Books:

(2005). The British Columbia Representation Agreement Act, Adult Guardianship Act, and Related Statutes. Toronto: Carswell Thomson Professional Publishing.  The fifth edition (2008) of this text is in preparation.

(2005), with Elizabeth Elliott, (eds.) New Directions in Restorative Justice: Issues, Practice, Evaluation. Portland: Willan Publishing.

Book Chapters:

(2004) “Criminal Business Organizations, Street Gangs and Wanna-Be Groups: A Vancouver Perspective”, in Tilley N. & J.Schneider (eds.) Gangs. London: Ashgate Publishing - International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Penology. 

(2005) "Guardianship of the Person and of the Estate" in Soden, A. (ed.) Advising the Older Client. Toronto: Butterworths LexisNexis.

(2005) "Health Care Consent Legislation in Common Law Jurisdictions" in Soden, A. (ed.) Advising the Elderly Client. Toronto: Butterworths LexisNexis.

(2005) (with Beaulieu, M. & C. Spencer)  “The Abuse and Neglect of Older Canadians: Key Legal and Related Issues,”  in Soden, A. (ed.) Advising the Older Client. Toronto: Butterworths LexisNexis.

(2005) “Out to Pasture: A Case for the Retirement of Canadian Mental Health Legislation” in Peay, J. (ed.) Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

(2005) (with I.Coneybeer) "Corporate Crime", in Larsen N. & B. Burtch (eds.) Law in Society: Canadian Readings (2nd edition). Toronto: Harcourt Brace (an updated and expanded version of the 1999 chapter of the same name).

(in press). “The Care/Control of Young People in Canada,” in Creighton, M. & D. Edgington (eds.) Japan and Canada in Comparative Perspective: Social and Political Change in the New Millenium. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

(2006) (with Clements, G.)  “Adult Guardianship and Substitute Decision-Making” in Uhlemann, M. & D. Turner (eds.) A Legal Handbook for the Helping Professional. Victoria: Sedgwick.

Major Research Reports:

(2003), (with Beaulieu, M. & Spencer, C.)  Abuse and Neglect in Later Life in Canada. Ottawa: Health Canada.

(2006). (with Kinney, J.B.) Reducing Crime and Improving Criminal Justice in B.C. Vancouver: B.C. Progress Board.

Recent Conference Papers

2005 Canadian Bar Association Annual Conference.

CLE Workshop and Paper: The Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults.

(August 2005, Vancouver).

2006 Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies Annual Conference.

Care Facility Admission Legislation: A B.C. Update., and

The Case for Instructional Advance Directives (A lunchtime conference symposium with Judith Wahl).

(October 2006, Vancouver)

2006 Mental Disability Advocacy Centre Conference on the Reform of Adult Guardianship Law in Hungary. 

Assisted and Supported Decision-Making: Key Elements.

(November 2006, Budapest, Hungary)

2007 Irish Council for Civil Liberties Conference: Rebalancing Rights?

Key Note Speaker: Rebalancing Rights: An International Perspective

(February 2007, Dublin)

Further information and a full resume are available on request: rgordon@sfu.ca

July 19th 2007.