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8 produkter
Power to Criminalize
Violence, Inequality and the Law
Av Elizabeth Comack, Gillian Balfour
Häftad, 2004
275 kr
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Law’s power to criminalize–to turn a person into a criminal–is formidable. Traditional legal doctrine argues that law dispenses justice in an impartial and unbiased fashion. Critical legal theorists claim that law reproduces gender, race and class inequalities. The Power to Criminalize offers an …
Out There/In Here
Masculinity, Violence and Prisoning
Häftad, 2008
239 kr
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Elizabeth Comack explores the complicated connections between masculinity and violence in the lives of men incarcerated at a provincial prison. Moving between the spaces of ‘out there’ and ‘in here,’ the discussion traces the men’s lives in terms of their efforts to ‘do’ masculinity and the place …
Locating Law, 3rd Edition
"Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality Connections
Häftad, 2014
456 kr
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A primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the “law-society” relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both shapes — and is shaped by — the society in which it operates. This book explores the law-society relation by locating …
Criminalizing Women
Av Gillian Balfour, Elizabeth Comack
Häftad, 2014
337 kr
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Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neo-liberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism, and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women’s lives. Criminalizing Women introduces readers to the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four …
Criminalizing Women
Av Gillian Balfour, Elizabeth Comack
Häftad, 2006
374 kr
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This reference focuses on the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. Exploring women`s lives as "errant females," this volume maps out the connections between the choices women make and their environment as linked to the wider …
Indians Wear Red
Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs
Av Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
246 kr
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With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known about these street gangs and the factors and conditions that have …
Coming Back to Jail
Women, Trauma, and Criminalization
Häftad, 2018
270 kr
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Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack’s Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women’s abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What has changed for incarcerated women in those twenty years? Are experiences …
Realizing a Good Life
Mens Pathways out of Drugs and Crime
Häftad, 2023
227 kr
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Now available as audiobook, narrated by Elizabeth Comack! Realizing a good life is almost always defined in material terms, typified by individuals (usually men) who have considerable wealth. But classed, gendered and racialized social supports enable the “self-made man.” Instead, this book turns …
