Criminalization, Representation, Regulation
Thinking Differently about Crime
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2014
- Category
- Criminology, General, Human Rights
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442607101
- Publish Date
- Sep 2014
- List Price
- $71.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442608931
- Publish Date
- Sep 2014
- List Price
- $158.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442607132
- Publish Date
- Sep 2014
- List Price
- $49.95
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Description
What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is understood, reproduced, and challenged. It explores the dynamic interplay between practices of representation, processes of criminalization, and the ways that these circulate to both reflect and constitute crime and "justice."
About the authors
Deborah R. Brock is Professor of Sociology at York University. She has written extensively on the topic of sexual labour and her writing links academic research to popular struggles for social justice. She is the author of Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour (UTP, 2009), and co-editor of Power and Everyday Practices (Nelson, 2011).
Amanda Glassbeek is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her books include Feminized Justice: The Toronto Women's Court, 1913-34 (2009) and Moral Regulation and Governance in Canada: History, Context, and Critical Issues (2006).
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Carmela Murdocca is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and a member of York's graduate programs in Sociology, Socio-Legal Studies, and Social and Political Thought. She is the author of To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada (2013).
