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ISBN 10: 0774818190 ISBN 13: 9780774818193
Editorial: University of British Columbia Press, 2010

Sinopsis

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.

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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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Editorial
University of British Columbia Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0774818190
ISBN 13 
9780774818193
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
224
Editor
Mosher Janet, Brockman Joan
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