Welcome to the Text Enrichment Website to accompany Canadian Criminology, Second Edition, by John Winterdyk. This site contains a chapter on Crime and Criminal Law, which examines how Canadian criminal law came to be and how it is administered. It also looks at the role of the Charter in protecting individual rights while also ensuring that society's interests are protected. The chapter also outlines the differences between common law and civil law and provides an end-of-chapter list of common law principles.

This site also includes 4 Appendices related to the study of criminology and criminal justice, as well as PowerPoint Slide Presentations.