Constructing Crime

Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
Herausgeber: Mosher, Janet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Five unique case studies reveal how crime is being constructed and enforced in contemporary Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780774818209
• ISBN-10: 0774818204
• Artikelnr.: 32737609

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman
1 Welfare Fraud: The Construction of Social Assistance as Crime / Janet
Mosher and Joe Hermer
2 Fraud against the Public Purse by Health Care Professionals: The
Privilege of Location / Joan Brockman
3 Pimatsowin Weyasowewina: Our Lives, Others' Laws / Lisa Chartrand and
Cora Weber-Pillwax
4 Incivilities: The Representations and Reactions of French Public Housing
Residents in Montreal City / Frédéric Lemieux and Nadège Sauvêtre
5 The Legalization of Gambling in Canada / Colin S. Campbell, Timothy F.
Hartnagel, and Garry J. Smith
Afterword / Marie-Andrée Bertrand
Index