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Janet Mosher - Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization - 9780774818193 - V9780774818193
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Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization

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Description for Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization Hardback. Five unique case studies reveal how crime is being constructed and enforced in contemporary Canada. Editor(s): Mosher, Janet; Brockman, Joan. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JKV; LAQ; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 454.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774818193
SKU
V9780774818193
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About Janet Mosher
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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