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

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9780774818209: Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization (Law and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0774818204 ISBN 13: 9780774818209
Publisher: UBC Press, 2011

Synopsis

Constructing Crime examines why particular behaviours are defined and enforced as crimes and particular individuals are targeted as criminals. Contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five areas – the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling. These case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andrée Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why.

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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

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Publisher
UBC Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0774818204
ISBN 13 
9780774818209
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
448
Editor
Mosher Janet, Brockman Joan

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