Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice articles from September 2006

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from September 2006

The state of critical scholarship in criminology and socio-legal studies in Canada.
September 1, 2006... Introduction: Promising critique In early 2006, the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Critical Criminology professional e-mail list became the site of commentaries and debates related to semantics. These exchanges were...

Pioneering critical criminology in Canada.
September 1, 2006... Seeding barren ground This is a good time to interrogate the status of critical criminology in Canada, since it is not entirely clear whether the development of the field portends a resurgent or a recessionary trend. In this article, which...

"So what does all of this have to do with criminology?": surviving the restructuring of the discipline in the twenty-first century. (Canada)
September 1, 2006... Le present commentaire renvoie a un article que les auteurs ont publie en 1999 dans la Revue et ou ils ont emis plusieurs observations sur l'etat de la criminologie telle qu'elle se pratiquait au tournant du 21e siecle dans les universites...

Critical criminology and possibility in the neo-liberal ethos.(Canada)
September 1, 2006... What is a criminologist to do? While acknowledging the diversity of criminologists and criminological practices, we propose to initiate a discussion of the general conditions of criminological practice--its valuation structures, its peculiar...

Governing on the margins: exploring the contributions of governmentality studies to critical criminology in Canada.(Canada)
September 1, 2006... Introduction Despite its early promise, critical criminology has waned in influence in recent years, its star dimmed by the rising currency of administrative criminology and the migration of critically minded scholars from the...

Governmentality, critical criminology, and the absent norm.(Canada)
September 1, 2006... Since the late 1980s, Michel Foucault has become perhaps the most common theoretical base for emerging Canadian criminologists. Disenchanted with Marxist-informed critique, researchers turned to Discipline and Punish (Foucault 1977) and...

Re-imagining a feminist criminology.(Canada)
September 1, 2006... Introduction Like much recent critical criminology, feminist criminology has been influenced by a "Foucault effect" (see Smart 1989; Howe 1994). The appeal and promise of Michel Foucault's lectures and essays on governmentality are their...

Husband abuse: equality with a vengeance?
September 1, 2006... Introduction The most recurrent backlash against women's safety is the myth that men are battered as often as women... Of course we must have compassion for those relatively few men who are harmed by their wives and...

Coroners' interested advocacy: understanding wrongful accusations and convictions.
September 1, 2006... Judge: But we've got to verify it legally To see... Mayor: To see... Judge: If she... Mayor: If she... Judge: Is morally, ethically Munchkin 1: Spiritually, physically Munchkin 2: Positively, absolutely ...

Hated identities: queers and Canadian anti-hate legislation.
September 1, 2006... Introduction The matter of the victim's identity as a member of a targeted (minority) group is a central and taken-for-granted feature of Canadian anti-hate laws. Our critical examination of two hate crimes, however, shows that the...