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
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
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
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
Cybercrime: Awareness, Prevention, and Response Emond Montgomery	Cybercrime: Awareness, Prevention, and Response is the first Canadian resource of its kind to effectively address the role of crime within this increasingly digitally dependent age and networked …	Kathy Macdonald	305	2019	View
Disorderly People Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario Fernwood Publishing	The Ontario Safe Streets Act is the first modern provincial law to prohibit a wide range of begging and squeegee work in public space. This Act is representative of a much wider set of reforms …	Janet Mosher; Joe Hermer	121	2002	View
Doing Respectful Research Power, Privilege and Passion Fernwood Publishing	Doing Respectful Research is situated within a critical, feminist postmodern framework and addresses the complexities of conducting respectful qualitative research with human participants. Three …	Susan A. Tilley	294	2016	View
Drug-Impaired Driving in Canada	While drug-impaired driving has been a criminal offence in Canada since 1925, charges have been more common and more complex since the approval of the Drug Recognition Exercises (DRE) and …		265		View
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada Volume One: Summary Honouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future James Lorimer and Company	This is the Final Report of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these …	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada	544	2015	View
Gender, Law & Justice A Custom Texbook compiled for Emily van der Meulen, Department of Criminology, Ryerson University Fernwood Publishing	Gender, Law and Justice explores feminist theoretical frameworks and gendered experiences of Canadian law and the criminal justice system. Taken together, the authors advance an intersectional …		454	2016	View