Women & Gender

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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 … ; 168 View

Beyond Criminology

Taking 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 … ; ; 342 View

Coming Back to Jail

Women, 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 … 272 View

Conflict Is Not Abuse

Overstating 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 … 304 View

Criminalizing Women

Gender 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 … ; 391 View

Gender, Law & Justice

A 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 View
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Murder in Renfrew County

The predator who left three women dead- and the justice system that failed to stop him

 The murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew County, and the inquest into violence against women that followed. The story of the murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew county by … 226 View

No One to Tell

Breaking My Silence on Life in the RCMP

 In 2012, Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination while serving in Canada’s national police … 232 View
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A Reparative Manifesto

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

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 A brief introduction about events in recent history and nature of Abuse. The author talks about Normative Conflict and Resistance, and how reasonable stances of difference can be misrepresented … 22 $0.44 Add
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Chapter One

From: Coming Back to Jail

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Feminism and Theory Race, Class, Gender and the Law

An Introduction

From: Gender, Law & Justice

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From: Criminalizing Women

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Prisons for Women-Theory, Reform, Ideals

From: An Ideal Prison?

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From: No One to Tell

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 The introduction outlines the arc former RCMP officer Janet Merlo’s career, and her encounters with harassment, often sexual, from male officers. The introduction charts the path of Merlo … 8 $0.80 Add
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Introduction and a Note on Language

From: Murder in Renfrew County

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 Author Dean Beeby takes the reader through his thoughts while working at the CBC Parliamentary Bureau as the case broke. Dean reflects on the incompetence of the justice system and how it failed … 10 $1.00 Add