Accusation
Creating Criminals
This interdisciplinary collection challenges conventional views on crime and criminals, examining how ideas and rituals of criminal accusation produce both accusers and accused.
- Copyright year: 2016
Parole in Canada
Gender and Diversity in the Federal System
Parole in Canada explores how concerns about aboriginality, gender, and the multicultural ideal of “diversity” have altered parole policy and practice – and asks whether these changes go far enough.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fragile Settlements
Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
Fragile Settlements compares the historical processes through which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2016
Disarming Intervention
A Critical History of Non-Lethality
Disarming Intervention traces the social, historical, and legal legitimization of non-lethal weapons in the United States.
- Copyright year: 2015
To Right Historical Wrongs
Race, Gender, and Sentencing in Canada
A bold questioning of culture-based reparative justice initiatives – the political culture that inspired them and their efficacy in an age in which historically marginalized people are disproportionately represented in Canadian prisons.
- Copyright year: 2013
On the Outside
From Lengthy Imprisonment to Lasting Freedom
Drawing on the narratives of men who have served lengthy prison sentences, this book illuminates the tumultuous journey from life in a penitentiary to success in the community.
- Copyright year: 2013
Selling Sex
Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
A diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way.
- Copyright year: 2013
Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
This book chronicles the first century of Canadian border control, revealing how policies have been influenced by changing perceptions of the rights of non-citizens.
- Copyright year: 2013
Still Dying for a Living
Corporate Criminal Liability after the Westray Mine Disaster
Still Dying for a Living investigates the state’s (in)ability to develop effective legal strategies for holding corporations accountable for serious injury and death in the workplace.
- Copyright year: 2012
City of Order
Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35
A groundbreaking exploration of the causes and consequences of Halifax’s tough-on-crime measures in the interwar era.
- Copyright year: 2012
Transforming Law's Family
The Legal Recognition of Planned Lesbian Motherhood
Drawing on the rarely heard voices of Canada’s lesbian mothers, Transforming Law’s Family explores the legal dimensions of planned lesbian parenthood and proposes avenues for legal change.
- Copyright year: 2011
Judging Homosexuals
A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France
This history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.
- Copyright year: 2011
Critical Criminology in Canada
New Voices, New Directions
A new generation of critical criminologists examines the future of criminology and criminal justice in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2011
Globalizing Citizenship
This book traces how border controls and detention practices, particularly in the post-9/11 era, are transforming citizenship into a globalizing regime to regulate mobility.
- Copyright year: 2010
Panoptic Dreams
Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada
A definitive study of the implementation and implications of streetscape video surveillance systems in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Practice of Execution in Canada
The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2010
Media Divides
Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Media Divides offers the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications law and policy.
- Copyright year: 2010
Lost Kids
Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States
Distinguished historians and social scientists consider the under-representation, demonization, and inadequate care of vulnerable children in twentieth-century Canada and the United States.
- Copyright year: 2009
Criminal Artefacts
Governing Drugs and Users
By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices.
- Copyright year: 2007