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  • Trafficking Harms

    Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences

    by Katrin Roots, Ann De Shalit, Emily van der Meulen ...
    Amid the proliferating scholarship and often sensational public campaigns, Trafficking Harms offers fresh insights and critical analyses. The collection’s four thematic areas — Discourses and Representations; Law and Prosecutions; Policing and Surveillance; Migrant Labour Exploitation — examine an array of issues, including the contested definitions of human trafficking, the application of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Violence, Imagination, and Resistance

    Socio-legal Interrogations of Power

    Edited by Mariful Alam, Patrick Dwyer, Katrin Roots ...
    Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will never be possible to enact change through the law because it is inseparable from violence, be it metaphysical, social, or political. They posit that a “just world, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Domestication of Human Trafficking

    Law, Policing, and Prosecution in Canada

    by Katrin Roots ...
    Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue.The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada’s criminal justice approaches to human trafficking, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Domestication of Human Trafficking

    Law, Policing, and Prosecution in Canada

    by Katrin Roots ...
    Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue.The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada’s criminal justice approaches to human trafficking, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims

    by Ramona Vijeyarasa ...
    Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman is a go-to text for readers who seek a comprehensive overview of the meaning of ’human trafficking’ and current debates and perspectives on the issue. It presents a more nuanced understanding of human trafficking and its victims by examining - and challenging - the conventional assumptions that sit at the heart of mainstream approaches to the topic.A ... Read more

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  • Crisis in Canada's Policing

    Why change is so hard, and how we can get real reform in our police forces

    by John Sewell ...
    In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. In the days and weeks following, the deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto and Chantel Moore in New Brunswick showed that police violence is also a Canadian ... Read more

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  • Imprisoning Our Sisters

    The New Federal Women's Prisons in Canada

    by Stephanie Hayman ...
    Using extensive interviews and previously unexplored archival material, Hayman examines the work of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women and assesses the opening of the first three prisons. She questions the notion that prisons can simultaneously "heal" and punish, suggesting that the power of "the prison" inevitably triumphs over the good intentions of reformers. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Global Policing

    by Ben Bowling, James W.E. Sheptycki ...
    In the transitional networked society, police power is no longer constrained by the borders of the nation state. It has globalised. Global Policing shows how security threats have been constructed by powerful actors to justify the creation of a new global policing architecture and how the subculture of policing shapes the world system.Demonstrating how a theory of global policing is central to ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Solidarity Beyond Bars

    Unionizing Prison Labour

    by Jordan House, Asaf Rashid ...
    Prisons don’t work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do, how they do it, who they do it for and under which conditions. Unions protect workers fighting for better pay and against discrimination and occupational health and safety concerns, but prisoners are denied this protection despite being the ... Read more

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  • Defund the Police

    An International Insurrection

    by Chris Cunneen ...
    The police are viewed as guardians of public safety and enforcers of the law. How accurate is this? Given endemic police violence which is often aimed at racialised and minoritised groups and the failure of many attempts at reform, attention has turned to community-generated models of support. These include defunding the police and instead funding alternatives to criminalisation and incarceration ... Read more

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  • Trafficking and Global Crime Control

    by Maggy Lee ...
    In a world where global flows of people and commodities are on the increase, crimes related to illegal trafficking are creating new concerns for society. This, in turn, has brought about new and contentious forms of regulation, surveillance and control. There is a pressing need to consider both the problem itself, and the impact of international policy responses.This authoritative work examines ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex

    Crime and Incarceration in the 21st Century

    by Kevin Wehr, Elyshia Aseltine ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude by using California as a case study, and propose alternatives and alterations to the prison system. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD