Research Catalog

Title

Constructing crime : contemporary processes of criminalization / edited by Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Brockman, Joan, LL. M.
• Mosher, Janet E. (Janet Eaton), 1958-

Description

206 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

""[This collection] seeks to critique the current state of scholarship and policy making in criminology and law, with a particular concern for how crime is produced as an object of regulation and punishment. These are crucial questions for Canadian scholars, policy makers, and citizens."---Val Marie Johnson, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary's University" "Constructing Crime examines the central question: Why do we define and enforce particular behaviours as crimes and target particular individuals as criminals?" "To answer this question, contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five radically different sites --- the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of incivilities or disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling." "By demonstrating that how crime is defined and enforced is connected to social location and status, these interdisciplinary case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andree Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why. This timely volume will appeal to policy makers and students and practitioners of law, criminology, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Law and society series, 1496-4953

Uniform Title

Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)

Subject

• Criminology > Canada
• Crime > Sociological aspects > Canada
• Criminal behavior > Canada
• Criminologie > Canada
• Criminalité > Aspect sociologique > Canada
• Comportement criminel > Canada

Genre/Form

• essays.
• Essays
• Legal Osgoodiana.
• Legal Canadiana.
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman -- Welfare fraud : the constitution of social assistance as crime / Janet Mosher and Joe Hermer -- Fraud against the public purse by health care professionals : the privilege of location / Joan Brockman -- Pimatsowin Weyasowewina : our lives, others' laws / Lisa Chartrand and Cora Weber-Pillwax -- Incivilities : the representations and reactions of French public housing residents in Montreal City / Frédéric Lemieux and Nadège Sauvêtre -- The legalization of gambling in Canada / Colin S. Campbell, Timothy F. Hartnagel, and Garry J. Smith -- Afterward / Marie-Andrée Bertrand.

ISBN

• 9780774818193
• 0774818190

OCLC

521753913

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library