(Ab)Using Power
The Canadian Experience
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2001
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552660478
- Publish Date
- Mar 2001
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
This book about crime, law, power, and social issues in Canada includes contributions from 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 and represents the first systematic effort in Canada to integrate a variety of topics related to power into a single collection aimed at identifying and exploring common themes, issues, problems, and remedies.
About the authors
Susan C. Boyd is a scholar/activist and distinguished professor at the University of Victoria. She has authored several articles and books on drug issues, including Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada. She was a member of the federal Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation. She is a long-time activist who collaborates with groups that advocate for the end of drug prohibition and for the establishment of diverse services.
Dorothy E. Chunn, Professor of Sociology, received her B.A. in English and History from the University of British Columbia and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Her research and publications are concentrated primarily in the area of feminist socio-legal studies. Recent research projects have focused on feminism, law, and social change in Canada since the 1960s; poor women’s experiences of health and housing; and the reform of Canadian child custody law.
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Dr. Robert Menzies, Professor of Sociology, received his B.A. in Psychology from York University, and his M.A. in Criminology and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Menzies has taught at SFU since 1982, and recently spent a term as J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar in the Humanities. He is also an Associate Member of the Department of History. Dr. Menzies is a former recipient of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award. His current projects include an in-progress book on the cultural history of ‘criminal insanity’; an inquiry into the encounters of racialized people with early 20th-century psychiatry; a study of eugenics and sterilization law in British Columbia; and, with colleagues across the country, the development of a research and education website on the history of madness in Canada.
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