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

Softcover

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.

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: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774818204
• ISBN 13: 9780774818209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Mosher Janet, Brockman Joan