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  • Thresholds of Accusation

    Law and Colonial Order in Canada

    Series series Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    This critical socio-legal history probes pretrial accusations through which colonial criminal law forged social orders for settler-colonialism across western Canada, focusing on Alberta, 1874–1884. Following military intelligence, a Northwest Mounted Police force was established to compel Dominion law. That force began by deploying accusatory theatres to receive information about crimes, arrest ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime develops a unique line of thought in contemporary criminology, re-examining an under-researched dimension of radical discourse. In particular, it focuses attention on the distinguishing feature of radical discourses, their allegiance to various visions of critique. The book reassesses the genres of critique evident in ... Read more

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  • Entryways to Criminal Justice

    Accusation and Criminalization in Canada

    How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse someone of being an offender? Entryways to Criminal Justice analyzes the thresholds that distinguish law-abiding individuals from those who may be criminalized. Contributors to the volume adopt social, historical, cultural, and political perspectives to explore the accusatory process that place persons in contact with the law ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Criminal Accusation

    Political Rationales and Socio-Legal Practices

    Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls processes that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks. Accusation demarcates specific subjects as the criminally accused, who then face courtroom trials, and possible punishment. It inaugurates a crime’s historical journey into being with sanctioned accusers successfully making criminal allegations ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Accusation

    Creating Criminals

    Series series Law and Society
    The punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization have received considerable attention. Less well documented is the actual role, process, and meaning of accusation per se. This collection of essays sets out the terms of a new debate about a largely overlooked but foundational dimension of criminalizing justice; namely, accusation.Criminal accusation, however, does more than define ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Governance and Regulation in Social Life

    Essays in Honour of W.G. Carson

    Comprising fourteen articles by leading international contributors, including some of the most prominent socio-legal and criminological scholars working in the field, this volume is currently the only work available that critically examines W.G. Carson and his crucial influence in the turn towards sociological approaches to criminology and a criminological interest in governance and social control ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice

    Restorative justice is the policy of eschewing traditional punishments in favour of group counselling involving both victims and perpetrators. Until now there has been no critical analysis of governmental rationales that legitimize restorative practices over traditional approaches but Governing Practices of Restorative Justice fills this gap and addresses the mentalities of governance most ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • After Sovereignty

    On the Question of Political Beginnings

    After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international capital exceeding the borders of known political entities, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'War on Terror', the often predicted, but still uncertain, establishment of either a new international American ... Read more

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    Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization

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  • Colonial Proximities

    Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

    by Renisa Mawani ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Real and imagined encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial contacts in the salmon canneries, the illicit liquor trade, and the (white) slavery scare in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia. Colonial Proximities explores the legal and spatial strategies of rule ... Read more

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  • Settler Colonialism

    A Theoretical Overview

    by L. Veracini ...
    Series series History (R0)
    A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies. ... Read more

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  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

    by David Garland ...
    First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It is now republished with a new Preface by the author.'Punishment and Welfare' explores the relation of punishment to politics, the historical formation and development of criminology, and the way in which penal reform grew out of the complex set of ... Read more

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