Crime
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 Insurgent LoveAbolition and Domestic Homicide |
Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through … | Ardath Whynacht | 161 | 2021 | View |
 NEW! Mass Murder, Police MayhemThe Mass Casualty Commission: The Facts, The Findings, and What Must Be Done |
In this book Dean Beeby distills the extensive research of the Mass Casualty Commission into a readable account of exactly what happened during 13 chaotic hours when 22 Nova Scotians were … | Dean Beeby | 208 | 2023 | View |
 NEW! Murder in Renfrew CountyThe 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 … | Dean Beeby | 226 | 2024 | View |
 NEW! On OpiumPain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance |
A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 364 | 2021 | View |
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From Domestic Homicide and AbolitionFrom: Insurgent Love |
In the introductory chapter, the author defines key terms that are essential to the text, details the failures of the current carceral approach to family violence, and details how her personal … | Ardath Whynacht | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Beyond Criminology |
Christina Pantazis; Dave Gordon; Paddy Hillyard | 10 | 2004 | $1.00 Add | |
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From IntroductionFrom: Disorderly People |
Janet Mosher; Joe Hermer | 10 | 2002 | $1.00 Add | |
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From Introduction |
Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan | 4 | 2005 | $0.40 Add | |
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From NEW! Introduction |
In the introduction to this book, Beeby outlines why the Mass Casualty Commission’s report was requested, and why he created this simplified and straight-forward summary of their report. | Dean Beeby | 7 | 2023 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction and a Note on LanguageFrom: Murder in Renfrew County |
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 … | Dean Beeby | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! PrologueFrom: On Opium |
The author describes feeling trapped since her body began to turn against her many years ago, when she first started to suffer the intense joint stiffness and accompanying pain that would turn … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From Beyond Criminology?From: Beyond Criminology |
Paddy Hillyard; Steve Tombs | 20 | 2004 | $2.00 Add | |
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From ButcherFrom: Insurgent Love |
This chapter recounts the friendship between the author and a man convicted of killing his partner. | Ardath Whynacht | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
