Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues, advances cutting-edge theories and methods to make sense of these issues, and proposes policy responses that promote social inclusion and security.
This book advances cutting-edge theories and methods, with the aim of moving beyond the scholarship that reproduces insecurity and exclusion.
The breadth of approaches encompasses much of the current critical criminological scholarship, serving as a counterpoint to the growth of managerial and administrative criminologies and the rise of explicitly exclusionary and punitive state policies and practices with respect to ‘crime’ and ‘security.’
This edited collection featuring two books, one in English and one in French, includes important contributions to knowledge and public policy by eminent experts and emerging scholars.
This book is published in English.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Challenging Criminology, Insecurity, and Exclusion
Carolyn Côté-Lussier, David Moffette, and Justin Piché
Section 1 — Rethinking Critical Criminology
1. Beyond Criminal Law and Methodological Nationalism: Borderlands, Jurisdictional Games, and Legal Intersections
David Moffette and Anna Pratt
2. Police Museums, the Naturalization of Colonial Conquests, and the Legitimation of Law Enforcement in Canada and France
Matthew Ferguson, Justin Piché, Gwénola Ricordeau, Carolina S. Boe, and Kevin Walby
3. Speaking Out of Turn: Cutting through Monologues of Exclusion and Partisanship
Maritza Felices-Luna and Anouk Guiné
Section 2 — Critical Criminology in Practice
5. Beyond Judgment: How Parents and Professionals Negotiate In/Exclusion and (In)Security among Youth Who Sexually Offend
Christine Gervais, Matthew S. Johnston, Serenna Dastouri, Leslie McGowran, and Elisa Romano
6. Addressing the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Criminal Justice System: Is Reconciliation a Way Forward?
Kathryn M. Campbell and Stephanie Wellman
Section 3 — Markers of Social Differentiation and Social Reaction
7. Security Governance and Racialization in the “War on Terror”
Baljit Nagra and Jeffrey Monaghan
8. Unruly Women in Neoliberal Times: Still Bad, Mad, and Sluts
Tuulia Law, Brittany Mario, and Chris Bruckert
9. On the Weighing of Protections: “Exerting Power and Doing Good” with Child Sexual Abuse Legislation
Christopher Greco and Patrice Corriveau
10. Disadvantage, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Carolyn Côté-Lussier, Katrin Hohl, and Jean-Denis David
Section 4 — Reflections on Criminology
11. Using Criminological Evidence to Shift Policy: From a Punishment to a Prevention Agenda
Irvin Waller, Verónica Martínez, Audrey Monette, and Jeffrey Bradley
Afterword
Reflections and Intentions: Critical Criminology in Canada
Gillian Balfour (class of ’87 and ’94)
Contributors