Alison MacPhail

Senior Associate

Alison MacPhail is a lawyer with over 30 years of experience in criminal justice and public safety. She has been responsible for criminal justice policy and legislation for both the federal and BC governments in Canada and has led major legislative and program reforms. She spent the last nine years of her public service career as a deputy minister in British Columbia, as Deputy Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Deputy Minister for Children and Family Development, and as the lead for criminal justice reform. She is now a consultant specializing in justice reform and access to justice issues and consults widely on a variety of justice organizational, policy and legislation issues.

Publications

Justice Indicators and Criminal Justice Reform: A Referen...

Author/s: Alison MacPhail, Prof. Yvon Dandurand, Dr. Kittipong Kittayarak

Published on: April 1, 2015

The goal of this publication is to introduce criminal justice officials to the use of justice indicators and to offer some general guidance on how to develop and apply indicators in support of criminal justice...

Using Indicators to Help Improve the Justice System

Author/s: Alison MacPhail, Prof. Yvon Dandurand

Published on: January 1, 2015

Every year the Symposium focuses on a different aspect of reinventing and improving the criminal justice system. This years theme is the important question of the use of various forms of systematic measurement to identify...

Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System

Author/s: Alison MacPhail, Prof. David MacAlister

Published on: January 1, 2013

This report was prepared for Re-Inventing Criminal Justice: the Fifth National Symposium. The report examines how there can be significant overrepresentation of individuals with mental illness when research proves there is only a limited causal...