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- Topic: Crime & Law
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Gender, Law & Justice
A custom text book compiled from previously published Fernwood material intended for courses focusing on gender and criminal justice studies.
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More Harm Than Good
Drug Policy in Canada
In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.”
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The Vigilant Eye
Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11
In The Vigilant Eye, Greg Marquis combines the narrative and chronological approach of traditional institutional history with the critical approaches of social history, legal history and criminology.
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Marginality and Condemnation, 3rd Edition
A Critical Introduction to Criminology
A newly updated version of this groundbreaking, critical introductory criminology textbook. Resources available with this edition include Power Point slides and a testbank.
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About Canada: Corporate Crime
A primer on a topic rarely discussed in public debate: corporations who engage in both criminal and legal but socially harmful behaviours in their relentless pursuit of profit.
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The Disappearance of Criminal Law
Police Powers and the Supreme Court
In The Disappearance of Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar examine the rationales underpinning Supreme Court of Canada cases that address the power of the police.
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Indivisible
Indigenous Human Rights
Drawing on a wealth of experience and blending critical theoretical frameworks and a close knowledge of domestic and international law on human rights, the authors in this collection show that settler states such as Canada persist in violating and failing to acknowledge Indigenous human rights.
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Criminalizing Women, 2ed.
Gender and (In)Justice in Neoliberal Times, 2nd Edition
Criminalizing Women introduces readers to the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. Chapters explore how narratives that construct women as errant females, prostitutes, street gang associates and symbols of moral corruption mask the connections between women’s restricted choices and the conditions of their lives.
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Threatening Democracy
SLAPPs and the Judicial Repression of Political Discourse
Threatening Democracy is an introduction to the phenomenon of judicial intimidation used against socially and politically active citizens. Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known by the acronym SLAPP) involve the deliberate use of judicial procedures as tools for intimidation, censorship and political reprisal in the context of social and political debates.
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Locating Law, 3rd Edition
“Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality Connections
Praise for the second edition: “This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics often perpetuating oppression. … Locating Law is essential for undergraduate students in justice, sociology and criminology.” – Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina
