Criminal Law and Precrime: Legal Studies in Canadian Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt

ISBN-13: 9780367902780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 130 str.

Richard Jochelson; James Gacek; Lauren Menzie

Opis

In Minority Report, Precrime imprisons people for crimes they would have committed had they not been prevented. With Philip K. Dick as inspiration, the authors posit that developments in Canadian law indicate a trend toward imposing punishments at earlier stages of the prosecutorial process.

O autorze

Richard Jochelson is an associate professor on the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba and holds his Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, a Masters in Law from University of Toronto Law School, and a Law Degree from University of Calgary Law School (Gold Medal). A former law clerk, he worked for ten years teaching criminal and constitutional law at the University of Winnipeg prior to joining Robson Hall. Jochelson is a member of the Bar of Manitoba, a co-applicant on several Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) awards, and has co-authored and co-edited several peer-reviewed articles and books, most recently The Disappearance of Criminal Law: Police Powers and the Supreme Court.

James Gacek is currently a doctoral candidate at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh. He has lectured in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. Situated within broader research interests in prison sociology, critical criminology, and carceral geography, his Ph.D. research focuses upon the socio-legal and geographical relationship between criminalized people and the territorial stigmatization of marginalized neighborhoods in Canada. Gacek is an American Sociological Association Paper Award winner (2014).

Lauren Menzie is a graduate student in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She is working as a section instructor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton. Her research interests are centered onthe evolution of Canadian criminal law and governance, including the legal regulation of sex and criminal law’s emergence into the realm of administrative civil processes. Her research examines the regulation of nonconsensual sexual interaction, the social and legal discourses surrounding consent, and how law denunciates certain expressions of sexuality.

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Kirsten Kramar currently teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. She is a notable law and society scholar. She has published several academic books and monographs dealing with sexuality and the law, moral regulation, and the law of infanticide. She is also widely published in the area of the law of policing. She was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg for eleven years prior to moving to Calgary. She is a winner of multiple SSHRC grants and a notable expert in the area of forensic evidence in cases of infanticide.