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. Two studies of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians illustrate that uneven enforcement of the law can leave the privileged with a sense of entitlement and the marginalized with an imposed criminal self-concept. An examination of the...
Constructing Crime examines the central question: Why do we define and enforce particular behaviours as crimes and target particular individ...
An analysis of the causes and implications of the gendered structure of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere. The author concludes that until there is significant change in how women are perceived in relation to domestic duties, it is unlikely that they will attain equality within the legal profession.
An analysis of the causes and implications of the gendered structure of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere. The author concludes that until ...
