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The Power to Criminalize: Violence, Inequality and the Law - Softcover

Comack, Elizabeth; Gillian Balfour

 
9781552661284: The Power to Criminalize: Violence, Inequality and the Law
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1552661288 ISBN 13: 9781552661284
Verlag: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The tension between traditionalist legal theories that maintain that the law dispenses justice in an impartial fashion and critical theories that maintain that the law reproduces gender, race, and class inequalities provides a context for this investigation into law's complicity in perpetuating disparities. Police reports, prosecuting lawyer reports, memos, interviews with defense lawyers, sentencing reports, and other primary sources from Canadian violent crime cases illustrate the prejudicial strategies used in litigation. Linguistic nuances that describe a neighborhood celebration as a "birthday party" or a "drinking binge" are among the ways stereotypes are perpetuated. This analysis raises questions about how the law can be applied to realize a more just society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elizabeth Comack is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of The Feminist Engagement with the Law, Locating Law, The Social Basis of Law, and Women in Trouble. Gillian Balfour is a professor of sociology at Trent University.

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Verlag
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1552661288
ISBN 13 
9781552661284
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
199
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Verantwortliche Person
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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