Constructing Crime
Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2011
- Category
- Criminology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774818209
- Publish Date
- Jan 2011
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774818193
- Publish Date
- May 2010
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774818216
- Publish Date
- May 2010
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Constructing Crime examines why particular behaviours are defined and enforced as crimes and particular individuals are targeted as criminals. Contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five areas – the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling. These case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andrée Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
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
