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Ancillary Police Powers in Canada

A Critical Reassessment

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Ancillary Police Powers in Canada investigates the scope of police powers under Canadian common law, and the implications for our rights, freedoms, and individual liberty.

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Suing for Silence

Sexual Violence and Defamation Law

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Suing for Silence exposes the phenomenon of lawsuits whose purpose is to silence those who disclose sexual violence, revealing the gendered underpinnings of Canadian defamation law and its chilling effect on public discourse including formal reports of sexual violence.

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Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here

The Paradox of Protection in Canada

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Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here details the paradox of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of access to refugee rights in Canada.

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Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

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Is sexual assault tolerated in Canadian sport? After reaching the provocative conclusion that sexual assaults are not only accepted but normalized and even promoted, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport offers constructive strategies to make sport safer.

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Family Law in Action

Divorce and Inequality in Quebec and France

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Family Law in Action examines the inequalities produced by divorce and separation in France and Quebec.

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Power Played

A Critical Criminology of Sport

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Power Played represents a distinctly critical criminology of sport, blowing the whistle on the harm, violence, and exploitation embedded in contemporary sport and sporting cultures.

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House Rules

Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of the Law

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House Rules takes a hard look at the law and norms governing family life, compelling readers to rethink entrenched inequalities in familial relationships and proposing ways to approach legislative solutions.

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Changing of the Guards

Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada

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Changing of the Guards is the first comprehensive assessment of how for- and not-for-profit private organizations are reshaping Canadian criminal justice processes and outcomes.

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Screening Out

HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

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A critical, compassionate, and highly readable narrative-driven analysis, this is the first-ever inquiry into how the Canadian immigration medical program works in practice to screen out people with HIV.

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Disability Injustice

Confronting Criminalization in Canada

UBC Press

In Disability Injustice, scholars and activists deliver a much-needed and long overdue analysis of disability and criminalization in Canada.

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