Screening Justice
Screening Justice

Author: Pauline Greenhill

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781552668160

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"Screening Justice in Canada is a scholarly exploration of films that focus centrally on crime and justice in Canada. Defining Canadian crime films as those that focus significantly on crime and its consequences in Canadian society, the book is as much about the ways crime films provide vehicles for understanding what it means to be Canadian as it is about the depiction and representation of crime and justice in Canadian cinema and television. The films examined in this book span all regions of Canada and include case studies of films set in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, British Columbia's Lower Mainland, the Canadian prairies, Ontario, and Quebec. Moreover, Canadian crime films produced from the 1930s to the present are included in these analyses. Contributors to this multi-and interdisciplinary volume are drawn from Criminology, Criminal Justice Studies, English literature, Art History, Film Studies and Communications, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies. This is the first comprehensive Canadian volume on crime films that takes up cultural criminology's call for more critical scholarly analyses of the interplay between crime, culture, and society. Adopting American criminologist Nicole Rafter's concept "popular criminology," the essays in this volume all take crime films seriously as popular efforts to understand the causes, consequences and meanings of crime in Canadian society."--

Borderline Crime
Borderline Crime

Author: Bradley Miller

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1487501277

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Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.

Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Essays in the History of Canadian Law

Author: Susan Lewthwaite

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1994-12-15

Total Pages: 811

ISBN-13: 1442659084

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This fifth volume in the distinguished series on the history of Canadian law turns to the important issues of crime and criminal justice. In examining crime and criminal law specifically, the volume contributes to the long-standing concern of Canadian historians with law, order, and authority. The volume covers criminal justice history at various times in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. It is a study which opens up greater vistas of understanding to all those interested in the interstices of law, crime, and punishment.

(Ab)using Power
(Ab)using Power

Author: Dorothy E. Chunn

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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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.

Canadian Society
Canadian Society

Author: Daniel Glenday

Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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This book is intended for core text for courses on Canadian society found in Sociology and Canadian Studies departments.

Canadian Organized Crime
Canadian Organized Crime

Author: Stephen Schneider

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781773380247

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An introductory examination of the major crime groups in Canada, this text presents contemporary case studies and criminal justice policies to assess which enforcement strategies are best suited to control organised crime. Stephen Schneider provides readers with a broad understanding of the social, political, and economic forces that lead to the continued existence of organised criminal activities.

Crime in Canadian Context
Crime in Canadian Context

Author: William O'Grady

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780195433784

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This concise, accessible introduction to criminology explores how crime is defined, measured, and controlled within a Canadian context. In-depth and well-balanced, the text covers the fundamentals of the discipline before exploring non-sociological explanations of crime, criminological theory,social inequality and crime, organizational crime, and intersections between the law and the criminal justice system. Drawing on the latest Canadian statistics and research, the text examines a range of contemporary topics from hate crime to homeless youth in an engaging and succinct style.Thoroughly updated with expanded discussions on policy, youth justice, and criminal law, along with boxed coverage of global and media issues, this second edition is essential reading for students studying criminology in Canada.

Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada
Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada

Author: Louis Knafla

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1554581575

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How is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe and North America? These and other questions were addressed at an international conference on crime and criminal justice at The University of Calgary attended by historians, professors of law, judges, and criminologists. The essays in Part I consider the evolution of criminal law doctrine, and those in Part II analyse the theory and measurement of crime in the past and at present. Parts III and IV examine the courts and prosecution, and Part V assesses the historical roots of the insanity defence and the theory and practice of punishment. The volume will be of interest, across national boundaries, to historians, sociologists, social workers, lawyers, and persons involved in the administration of justice as well as the general reader concerned about civil rights, social values, and justice. The eighteen contributors include F.H. Baker, J.M. Beattie, W.A. Calder, T.C. Curtis, D. Hay, H. Diederiks, A. Lachance, His Honour W.G. Morrow, A. Soman, and S. Verdun-Jones.

Criminological Theory
Criminological Theory

Author: Stephen G. Tibbetts

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 825

ISBN-13: 1412950376

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This book provides the best of both worlds-- authored text sections with carefully selected accompanying readings covering criminological theory from past to present and beyond. The articles, from leading journals in criminology and criminal justice, reflect both classic studies and state-of-the-art research. Key Features " Begins with an introductory chapter that presents a succinct overview of criminological theory, and briefly describes the organization and content of the book " Features 'How to Read a Research Article'--a perfect introduction to understanding how real-world research is organized and delivered in the journal literature " Includes a 'mini-chapter' for each Section, with figures and tables that present basic concepts and provide a background for the Readings that follow " Provides key terms, web resources, and thought-provoking discussion questions for each Section, along with questions for each Reading to help students develop their critical thinking skills " Instructor Resources on CD include a test bank, PowerPoint slides for each section, classroom activities, and more. " A Student study site provides additional articles, self-study quizzes, e-flashcards, and more.