Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization

Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
ISBN-10
0774859466
ISBN-13
9780774859462
Category
Social Science
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2010-05-10
Publisher
UBC Press
Authors
Joan Brockman, Janet Mosher

Description

Constructing Crime examines why particular behaviours are defined and enforced as crimes and particular individuals are targeted as criminals. Contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five areas � the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling. These case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andr�e Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why.

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