Abusing Power
The Canadian Experience
Abusing Power: The Canadian Experience is a book about crime, law, power and social (in)justice. The contributors include academics, legal practitioners, journalists and social activists who have been studying and struggling for years against the abuse of power in myriad realms of Canadian life. This book represents the first systematic effort in this country to integrate a variety of topics related to power abuse into a single collection.
About the book
Abusing Power: The Canadian Experience is a book about crime, law, power and social (in)justice. The contributors include academics, legal practitioners, journalists and social activists who have been studying and struggling for years against the abuse of power in myriad realms of Canadian life. This book represents the first systematic effort in this country to integrate a variety of topics related to power abuse into a single collection.
Each essay has been chosen on the strength of its capacity to further academic and public understandings of power relations and to illuminate the problem of upperworld wrongdoing. Selected topics span some of the most controversial issues and notorious examples of power abuse in recent Canadian history. This book is useful not only as a primary text in criminology and law courses but also as a secondary reader for others who want to contextualize and establish links with their teaching and research in feminist and cultural studies, communications, economics, political science, corporate law, criminal justice, and the sociology of professions.
Authors
Contents
- Editors’ Introduction (Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn and Susan Boyd)
- PART I: THE STATE
- Active Citizenship is the Best Defence Against Abuse of Power (Judy Rebick)
- From the Welfare State to the No-Second-Chances State (Ted Schrecker)
- Closing the Nation’s Ranks: Racism, Sexism, and the Abuse of Power in Canadian Immigration Policy (Sunera Thobani)
- PART II: THE POLITICAL ELITE
- The Somalia Affair: A Personal Account of Speaking Truth to Power (John Dixon)
- So you don’t like our Cover Story-Well we have others: The Development of Canada’s Signals Intelligence Capacity through Administrative Slight of Hand, 1941-2000 (Stuart Farson)
- The Devine Regime in Saskatchewan, 1982-1991: The Tory Caucus Fraud and Other Abuses of Power (J.F. Conway)
- PART III: CORPORATIONS
- Abusing Corporate Power: Death of a Concept (Laureen Snider)
- Westray and After: Power, Truth, and News Reporting of the Westray Mine Disaster (John McMullan)
- Consumers to the Rescue? Campaigning Against Corporate Abuse of Labour (Judy Fudge)
- PART IV: PROFESSIONS
- Psychological-Illusions: Professionalism and the Abuse of Power (Tana Dineen)
- Drugged, Exploited, Labeled, Blamed: How Psychiatry Oppresses Women (P. Susan Penfold)
- The ‘Fuck Your Buddy’ System and its Adversaries (Edgar Z. Friedenberg)
- PART V: CRIMINAL (IN)JUSTICE
- Racism in Justice: The Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System (Toni Williams)
- Unredressed Wrong: The Extradition of Leonard Peltier from Canada (Dianne L. Martin)
- Women’s Imprisonment and the State: The Praxis of Power (Gayle K. Hori)
- References
