Constructing crime
Subtitle: contemporary processes of criminalization
By: edited by Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman
Series: Law and society series; Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780774818193
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Criminologie; Criminalité; Crime; Criminal behavior; Criminology; Aspect sociologique; Comportement criminel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman; title: Welfare fraud :; title: the constitution of social assistance as crime  -- Janet Mosher and Joe Hermer; title: Fraud against the public purse by health care professionals :; title: the privilege of location  -- Joan Brockman; title: Pimatsowin Weyasowewina :; title: our lives, others' laws  -- Lisa Chartrand and Cora Weber-Pillwax; title: Incivilities :; title: the representations and reactions of French public housing residents in Montreal City  -- Frédéric Lemieux and Nadège Sauvêtre; title: The legalization of gambling in Canada -- Colin S. Campbell, Timothy F. Hartnagel, and Garry J. Smith-- Afterward /-- Marie-Andrée Bertrand.