Overview

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-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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Author:   Marie-Andrée Bertrand ,  Janet Mosher ,  Joan Brockman
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780774818193

ISBN 10:   0774818190
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 May 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman 1 Welfare Fraud: The Construction of Social Assistance as Crime / Janet Mosher and Joe Hermer 2 Fraud against the Public Purse by Health Care Professionals: The Privilege of Location / Joan Brockman 3 Pimatsowin Weyasowewina: Our Lives, Others’ Laws / Lisa Chartrand and Cora Weber-Pillwax 4 Incivilities: The Representations and Reactions of French Public Housing Residents in Montreal City / Frédéric Lemieux and Nadège Sauvêtre 5 The Legalization of Gambling in Canada / Colin S. Campbell, Timothy F. Hartnagel, and Garry J. Smith Afterword / Marie-Andrée Bertrand Index

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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

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