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- catalog abstract ""Drawing from diverse scholarly traditions - including law, sociology, cosmology and socio-legal studies - this collection of essays looks at the processes of defining crime and considers the varied and complex implications of our decisions to criminalize certain unwanted behaviour, from the perspective of various case studies the contributors reflect on the social processes that inform definitions of crime, criminal law, and its enforcement, while illuminating the subjective nature of crime and questioning the role of law in dealing with complex social issues." "What Is a Crime? will be of interest to a broad spectrum of readers with an interest in the governance of crime and its control in contemporary society. Students and scholars of law sociology, political science, philosophy and criminology will find this book invaluable in furthering the understanding of the processes of defining and responding to crime and criminal behaviour. It will also appeal to policymakers, criminal justice practitioners, and anyone with a stake in our current approaches to crime."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13331962.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Drawing from diverse scholarly traditions - including law, sociology, cosmology and socio-legal studies - this collection of essays looks at the processes of defining crime and considers the varied and complex implications of our decisions to criminalize certain unwanted behaviour, from the perspective of various case studies the contributors reflect on the social processes that inform definitions of crime, criminal law, and its enforcement, while illuminating the subjective nature of crime and questioning the role of law in dealing with complex social issues." "What Is a Crime? will be of interest to a broad spectrum of readers with an interest in the governance of crime and its control in contemporary society. Students and scholars of law sociology, political science, philosophy and criminology will find this book invaluable in furthering the understanding of the processes of defining and responding to crime and criminal behaviour. It will also appeal to policymakers, criminal justice practitioners, and anyone with a stake in our current approaches to crime."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "What is a crime? A secular answer / Jean-Paul Brodeur, with Geneviève Ouellet -- Undocumented migrants and Bill C-11: the criminalization of race / Wendy Chan -- Crime, copyright, and the digital age / Steven Penney -- Criminalization in private: the case of insurance fraud / Richard V. Ericson and Aaron Doyle -- From practical joker to offender: reflections on the concept of "crime" / Pierre Rainville -- Poisoned water, environmental regulation, and crime: constituting the nonculpable subject in Walkerton, Ontario / Laureen Snider.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 194 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "What is a crime?".
- catalog identifier "0774810866".
- catalog isFormatOf "What is a crime?".
- catalog isPartOf "Legal dimensions series".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Vancouver : UBC Press,".
- catalog relation "What is a crime?".
- catalog spatial "Canada.".
- catalog subject "364.971 22".
- catalog subject "Crime Sociological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Criminal law Canada.".
- catalog subject "Criminology Canada.".
- catalog subject "HV6025 .W52 2004".
- catalog subject "Sociological jurisprudence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "What is a crime? A secular answer / Jean-Paul Brodeur, with Geneviève Ouellet -- Undocumented migrants and Bill C-11: the criminalization of race / Wendy Chan -- Crime, copyright, and the digital age / Steven Penney -- Criminalization in private: the case of insurance fraud / Richard V. Ericson and Aaron Doyle -- From practical joker to offender: reflections on the concept of "crime" / Pierre Rainville -- Poisoned water, environmental regulation, and crime: constituting the nonculpable subject in Walkerton, Ontario / Laureen Snider.".
- catalog title "What is a crime? : defining criminal conduct in contemporary society / edited by the Law Commission of Canada.".
- catalog type "text".