Poverty, Regulation and Social Justice: Readings on the Criminalization of Poverty

Edited by Dian Crocker & Val Marie Johnson

ISBN 10: 1552663477 / ISBN 13: 9781552663479

Published by Brunswick Books, 2010

Some edgewear. Contents - Introduction: Reading the Criminalization of Poverty / Val Mare Johsnon; 1. Understanding the Role of law-and-Order Policies in Canadian Cities / Todd Gordon; 2. Social Assistance and the Politics of Welfare Fraud Investigations: The Case of Alberta / Trevor W. Harrison; 3. Homelessness after 9/11: Relections on How Our Society Treats Homeless individuals / Wayne MacHaughton; 4. "The Streets Belong to People That Pay For Them": The Spatial Regulation of Street Poverty in Vancouver, British Columbia / Mario Berti and Jeff Sommers; 5. The Intersecting Experience of Racialized Poverty and the Criminalization of the Poor / Grace-Edward Galabuzi; 6. The Criminalization of Poverty.and the Impoverishment of Everything Else / J. Grant Wanzel; 7. The Penis Police: Regulating, Punishing, and Excluding Single Mothers on Social Assistance / Jeanne Fay; 8. Apprehensive Wives and Intimidated Mothers: Women, Fear of Crime, and the Criminalization of Poverty in Toronto / Amanda Glasbeek; 9. It is Not a Crime / Amy Collins; 10. Street Kids as Delinquents, Menaces, and Criminals: The Criminalization of Poverty in Canada and Guatemala / Jeff Karabanow; 11. Yound and Feared / Greg X; 12. Homeless in Halifax: the Criminal Justice System Takes Aim at the Poor / Claire McNeil/ 13. Squat the City, Rock the Courts: Challenging the Criminal Marginalization of Anti-Poverty Activism in Canada / Lisa M. Freeman; 14. On the Streets There's No Forgetting Your Body / Jeff Shantz. Seller Inventory # 18012409

Synopsis:

By 2004, Ontario and British Columbia implemented "safe streets" legislation, laws that criminalize the economic activities, such as panhandling and squeegeeing, of people living in poverty. Concerned that Nova Scotia would do the same, the editors of this volume partnered with community groups to organize a public colloquium on the criminalization of poverty. Contributors to the colloquium from across Canada included a diversity of voices, from academics, policy makers and frontline workers to those affected first hand by these policies. This book, emerging from that conference, critically interrogates how state and private practices have increasingly come to over-regulate people with severely limited economic resources, and argues that the criminalization of our society's most vulnerable, the poor, women, the racialized, the disabled, youth, is materially and symbolically central to neoliberal politics and economics. The essays here also point to new ways of moving forward, approaches to poverty that minimize the use of law and regulation and have the potential to create a more compassionate future.

Diane Crocker and Val Marie Johnson are associate professors in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Poverty, Regulation and Social Justice: ...
Publisher: Brunswick Books
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good