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245 00 $aConstructing crime :$bcontemporary processes of criminalization /$cedited by Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman.
260 $aVancouver :$bUBC Press,$cc2010.
300 $a206 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aLaw and society series,$x1496-4953
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction /$rJanet Mosher and Joan Brockman --$tWelfare fraud :$tthe constitution of social assistance as crime /$rJanet Mosher and Joe Hermer --$tFraud against the public purse by health care professionals :$tthe privilege of location /$rJoan Brockman --$tPimatsowin Weyasowewina :$tour lives, others' laws /$rLisa Chartrand and Cora Weber-Pillwax --$tIncivilities :$tthe representations and reactions of French public housing residents in Montreal City /$rFrédéric Lemieux and Nadège Sauvêtre --$tThe legalization of gambling in Canada /$rColin S. Campbell, Timothy F. Hartnagel, and Garry J. Smith --$gAfterward /$rMarie-Andrée Bertrand.
520 1 $a""[This collection] seeks to critique the current state of scholarship and policy making in criminology and law, with a particular concern for how crime is produced as an object of regulation and punishment. These are crucial questions for Canadian scholars, policy makers, and citizens."---Val Marie Johnson, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary's University" "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-Andree 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCriminology$zCanada.
650 0 $aCrime$xSociological aspects$zCanada.
650 0 $aCriminal behavior$zCanada.
650 6 $aCriminologie$zCanada.
650 6 $aCriminalité$xAspect sociologique$zCanada.
650 6 $aComportement criminel$zCanada.
700 1 $aBrockman, Joan,$cLL. M.
700 1 $aMosher, Janet E.$q(Janet Eaton),$d1958-
830 0 $aLaw and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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