Criminology
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() (Ab)Using PowerThe Canadian Experience |
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 |
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 ProcedureA Visual Guide to the Law |
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 CriminologyTaking Harm Seriously |
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 ControlCriminal Justice in Nigeria |
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 JailWomen, Trauma, and Criminalization |
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 AbuseOverstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair |
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 DangerEmotions and the Mis/Representation of Crime in the News, Second Edition |
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 PovertyWelfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada |
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 WomenGender and (In)justice in Neo-Liberal Times, 2nd Edition |
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 |
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 PeopleLaw and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario |
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 ResearchPower, Privilege and Passion |
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: SummaryHonouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future |
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 & JusticeA Custom Texbook compiled for Emily van der Meulen, Department of Criminology, Ryerson University |
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 |