Criminology

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
(Ab)Using Power The Canadian Experience Fernwood Publishing	This book represents the first systematic effort in this country to integrate a variety of topics related to power abuse into a single collection. Each essay has been chosen on the strength of …	Dorothy E. Chunn; Robert Menzies; Susan Boyd	287	2001	View
NEW! Abolitionist Intimacies Fernwood Publishing	In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in …	El Jones	192	2022	View
An Ideal Prison? Critical Essays on Women's Imprisonment in Canada Fernwood Publishing	In a series of critical essays, the contributors stimulate reflection and discussion. They explore the effects of punishment and penality on women’s lives, the impact of feminist reforms on the …	Kelly Hannah-Moffat; Margaret Shaw	168	2000	View
Anatomy of Criminal Procedure A Visual Guide to the Law Irwin Law Inc.	The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure: A Visual Guide to the Law illustrates the law of criminal procedure through nearly seventy annotated charts and diagrams. Across the whole criminal process …	Alex Gorlewski; Steve Coughlan	435	2019	View
Beyond Criminology Taking Harm Seriously Fernwood Publishing	Beyond Criminology is an innovative, groundbreaking critique of conventional criminological approaches to social issues. The contributors make a broad analysis of social harm by examining the …	Christina Pantazis; Dave Gordon; Paddy Hillyard	342	2004	View
NEW! Canadian Policing Why and How It Must Change Irwin Law Inc.	Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change is a comprehensive and critical examination of Canadian policing from its colonial origins to its response to the February 2022 blockades and …	Kent Roach	276	2022	View
NEW! Child Victims in Canada’s Justice System Irwin Law Inc.	Child Victims in Canada’s Justice System is a thoroughly researched resource that will be useful for anyone working with or establishing public policy with respect to children who have …	Jack Reynolds; Jo-Anne Hughes; Loree Armstrong Beniuk	228	2022	View
NEW! Class Action How Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force Between The Lines	In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions …	Andy Hanson	276	2021	View
Colonial Systems of Control Criminal Justice in Nigeria University of Ottawa Press	A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by …	Viviane Saleh-Hanna	535	2008	View
Coming Back to Jail Women, Trauma, and Criminalization Fernwood Publishing	Drawing on the stories of forty-two incarcerated women, Coming Back to Jail broadens the focus to examine the role of trauma in the women’s lives. Resisting the popular move to understand …	Elizabeth Comack	272	2018	View
Conflict Is Not Abuse Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Arsenal Pulp Press	From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between …	Sarah Schulman	304	2016	View
Constructing Danger Emotions and the Mis/Representation of Crime in the News, Second Edition Fernwood Publishing	Crime reporting is often thought to be simply an objective and factual description of an event. In Constructing Danger Chris McCormick argues that crime is more than simply reported: it is …	Chris McCormick	240	2010	View
NEW! Corporate Rules The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada James Lorimer and Company	This book offers documentation for the first time of how corporations have captured Canadian government agencies set up to protect the public. Twenty-one authors, experts in their fields, …	Bruce Campbell	328	2022	View
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada Fernwood Publishing	The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against …	Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	102	2007	View
Criminalizing Women Gender and (In)justice in Neo-Liberal Times, 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Criminalizing Women introduces readers to the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. Chapters explore how narratives that construct women as …	Elizabeth Comack; Gillian Balfour	391	2014	View
Crisis in Canada’s Policing Why Change is So Hard, and How We Can Get Real Reform in our Police Forces James Lorimer and Company	In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at …	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	224	2021	View