Full Description
In Diversity, Crime, and Justice in Canada hate-crime specialist Barbara Perry brings together 17 of the country's leading scholars to address issues of inequality as they intersect with crime and social justice. Students will discover how collective identities - not just of race, class, and gender, but of religion, ability, sexuality, age - play a crucial part in determining the nature of an individual's encounter with the criminal justice system. Integrating themes of history and context, power and powerlessness, and social and political action throughout, the text examines the concept of difference, the specific issues that different groups face with respect to the justice system, and the kinds of reform necessary to mitigate inequalities. Exploring a range of cutting-edge topics, this is an invaluable resource for any course that examines social inequality in relation to the Canadian criminal justice system.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures ; List of Contributors ; Preface and Acknowledgments ; PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING DIFFERENCE ; 1. An Introduction: Considering Diversity and Justice in Canada ; 2. Framing Difference ; 3. Meditations of Race and Crime: Racializing Crime, Criminalizing Race ; 4. The Canada: Culture, Colonialism, and Criminal Justice ; 6. Immigration, Immigrants, and the Shifting Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Canada ; 7. Chinese Immigrants in Canada and Social Injustice: From Overt to Covert Racial Discrimination ; 8. Crime and Justice: The Experiences of Black Canadians ; 9. South-Asians and Justice in Canada ; 10. Justice and Islam in Canada ; 11. Zombies in Bel Air: Class and Marginalization in Canada ; 12. Prostituted, Policed, and Punished: Exploring the Victimization, Criminalization, and Incarceration of Women in Canada ; 13. Sexualities and Difference: The Criminalization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ) People in Canada ; 14. Older People, Crime, and State Intervention ; 15. Putting Youthful Offending and Victimization into Context ; 16. Individuals with Disabilities ; PART THREE: JUSTICE FOR DIVERSITY ; 17. Communicating from the Margins: Exploring Intercultural Communication ; 18. Anti-Racism Training in the Criminal Justice System: A Case for Effective Social Context Education ; 19. Criminal Justice/Social Justice ; Glossary ; Index
