Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization (Law and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774818190 ISBN 13: 9780774818193

Publisher: UBC Press, 2010

Synopsis

Constructing Crime examines the central question: Why do we define and enforce particular behaviours as crimes and target particular individuals as criminals?

To answer this question, contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five radically different sites – the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of incivilities or disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling.

By demonstrating that how crime is defined and enforced is connected to social location and status, these interdisciplinary case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andrée Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why. This timely volume will appeal to policy makers and students and practitioners of law, criminology, and sociology.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Mosher is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Joan Brockman is a professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.

Contributors: Colin S. Campbell, Lisa Chartrand, Timothy F. Hartnagel, Joe Hermer, Frédéric Lemieux, Nadège Sauvêtre, Garry J. Smith, Cora Weber-Pillwax

With an Afterword by Marie-Andrée Bertrand

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774818190
• ISBN 13: 9780774818193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Mosher Janet, Brockman Joan