Diversity, Crime, and Justice in Canada

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-543233-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

In Diversity, Crime, and Justice in Canada hate-crime specialist Barbara Perry brings together 17 of the country's leading scholars to address issues of inequality as they intersect with crime and social justice. Students will discover how collective identities - not just of race, class, and gender, but of religion, ability, sexuality, age - play a crucial part in determining the nature of an individual's encounter with the criminal justice system.
Integrating themes of history and context, power and powerlessness, and social and political action throughout, the text examines the concept of difference, the specific issues that different groups face with respect to the justice system, and the kinds of reform necessary to mitigate inequalities. Exploring a range
of cutting-edge topics, this is an invaluable resource for any course that examines social inequality in relation to the Canadian criminal justice system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perry, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Perry is Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She has written extensively in the area of hate crime, and is completing a British Home Office project on anti-racism programming in England and Wales. In Canada, her research is focussed on anti-Muslim violence, and hate crime against Aboriginal people.