Cargando…

What is a crime? : defining criminal conduct in contemporary society /

"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 pe...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Law Commission of Canada
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, ©2004.
Colección:Legal dimensions series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.