Honouring Social Justice / / Margaret E. Beare.

• VerfasserIn: Beare, Margaret E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Beare, Margaret E.,; Burstein, Paul,; Chambliss, William J.,; Chunn, Dorothy E.,; Dodge, Bernadine,; Falconer, Julian N.,; Gavigan, Shelley A. M.,; Grant, Alan,; Jull, Kenneth E.,; Manning, Peter K.,; Mathai, Sunil S.,; Mossman, Mary Jane,; Orlova, Alexandra V.,; Roach, Kent,; Snider, Laureen,; Stenning, Philip,; Stribopoulos, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

Honouring Social Justice brings together a diverse group of leading legal scholars, criminologists, and sociologists to study numerous contemporary social justice issues. In doing so, the contributors to this collection present a thorough and multifaceted portrait of recent successes and challenges of the criminal justice systems in Canada and elsewhere.Examining a broad range of vital contemporary social, judicial, and political issues, the essays in this volume pursue topics such as the targeting of marginalized groups, wrongful convictions, gender-based bias in law, government accountability, and inequalities in the application of the law to ethnic and socio-economic groups. These essays provide an illuminating introduction to the background of important social causes, and describe dedicated examples of how to effectively champion calls for social justice.Written to honour the life and work of the late Dianne Martin, a renowned scholar, lawyer, and social activist, Honouring Social Justice is an engaging and inspired series of accounts on how to improve society by leading experts from across the country.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Honouring Social Justice - Honouring Dianne Martin -- Part One. Before the Law: Innocence, Marginality, and Social Justice -- 1. Shouting Innocence from the Highest Rooftop -- 2. Exonerating the Wrongfully Convicted: Do We Need Innocence Hearings? -- 3. Poverty, Motherhood, and Citizenship under Neoliberalism. Who's In? Who's Out? -- 4. More Than Just Mens Rea: Indian Policy in Two Aboriginal Capital Cases from Regina, NWT -- Part Two. Women and the Exclusions of Law -- 5. Policing 'Deviant' Women: Idle, Dissolute, Disorderly, and Scandalous Behaviour -- 6. The First Women Lawyers: Gender Equality and Professionalism in Law -- 7. Safety through Punishment? -- Part Three. Social Injustice and Criminal Law -- 8. America's Crime Control Industry: A Self Perpetuating System -- 9. Corporate Criminal Liability: Outside the Penalty Box -- 10. Criminal Organization Legislation: Politics and Practice -- Part Four. Policing Social Justice -- 11. Women and Policing: The Few among the Many -- 12. Shadows of the Case -- 13. Brief Encounters: A Tale of Two Commissioners -- Part Five. Regulating Criminal Justice -- 14. Has the Charter Been for Crime Control? Reflecting on 25 Years of Constitutional Criminal Procedure in Canada -- 15. Sentencing Acts of Civil Disobedience: Separating Villains and Heroes -- 16. State Misconduct: A Continuum of Accountability -- Curriculum Vitae: Dianne L. Martin -- Bibliography -- Index