Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization (Law and Society) - Softcover

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9780774818209: Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization (Law and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0774818204 ISBN 13: 9780774818209
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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. Two studies of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians illustrate that uneven enforcement of the law can leave the privileged with a sense of entitlement and the marginalized with an imposed criminal self-concept. An examination of the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices offers yet another example of how the threat of prosecution can be used to criminalize cultural practices, while a study of public housing reveals that its form can influence how residents respond to disorder. Lastly, a case study on gambling reveals just how malleable the criminal law and definitions of crime can be.

By demonstrating that how crime is defined and enforced is connected to social location and status, these interdisciplinary cases and an afterword by Marie-Andrée 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0774818204
ISBN 13 
9780774818209
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Herausgeber
Mosher Janet, Brockman Joan
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