Enjeux criminologiques contemporains confronte certaines des questions pressantes relatives aux pratiques pe nales et carce rales, a la criminologie " clinique ", et au contro le du crime et ses conse quences. Cet ouvrage pre sente des the ories et des me thodes a la ne pointe de la recherche, dans le but explicite de contribuer au de veloppement de politiques qui promeuvent la se curite et l'inclusion sociale. Les approches et the ories critiques explore es dans cet ouvrage servent de contrepoint aux approches d'ordre administratif ou manage rial et aux politiques et pratiques e tatiques punitives, fonde es sur l'exclusion. De cline en deux volumes - l'un en franc ais et l'autre en anglais -, ce live rassemble autant des experts e minents que des chercheurs e mergents qui, ensemble, o rent une importante contribution a l'avancement de la recherche et des politiques publiques. Ce livre est publie en Anglais.

Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neoliberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women's lives. Criminalizing Women introduces the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. The contributors explore how narratives that construct women as errant females, prostitutes, street gang associates and symbols of moral corruption mask the connections between women's restricted choices and the conditions of their lives. The book shows how women have been surveilled, disciplined, managed, corrected and punished, and it considers the feminist strategies that have been used to address the impact of imprisonment and to draw attention to the systemic abuses against poor and racialized women. In addition to updating material in the introductions and substantive chapters, this second edition includes new contributions that consider the media representations of missing and murdered women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the gendered impact of video surveillance technologies (cctv), the role of therapeutic interventions in the death of Ashley Smith, the progressive potential of the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program and the use of music and video as decolonizing strategies.

This book is a collection of critical readings that animate contemporary sociological theory and research. Students will learn how sociology can be relevant in their everyday lives as they are introduced to scholars who challenge conventional thinking about how the world works. Designed as a companion reader for introductory sociology students, each reading is set in context with clear linkages to Joanne Naiman s How Societies Work. Students will read about racial profiling, wrongful convictions, homophobia, human trafficking, professional sports, sweatshop labour, and residential schools. Each chapter illustrates how sociologists think about social inequality, power, and social transformation."

The tension between traditionalist legal theories that maintain that the law dispenses justice in an impartial fashion and critical theories that maintain that the law reproduces gender, race, and class inequalities provides a context for this investigation into law's complicity in perpetuating disparities. Police reports, prosecuting lawyer reports, memos, interviews with defense lawyers, sentencing reports, and other primary sources from Canadian violent crime cases illustrate the prejudicial strategies used in litigation. Linguistic nuances that describe a neighborhood celebration as a "birthday party" or a "drinking binge" are among the ways stereotypes are perpetuated. This analysis raises questions about how the law can be applied to realize a more just society.