Honouring Social Justice / / Margaret E. Beare.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2008
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.)
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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