Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Elizabeth Comack
yhteensä 11 hakutulosta
Women in Trouble
This book addresses two areas of feminist scholarship?the recognition of violence against women and the endeavor to make visible the lives of women in prison. Beginning with …
Locating Law, 3rd Edition
A primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the "law-society" relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both …
Locating Law (Second Edition)
One primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the law/society relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both …
Racialized Policing
Policing is a controversial subject, generating considerable debate. One issue of concern has been "racial profiling" by police, that is, the alleged practice of targeting …
Realizing a Good Life
Realizing a good life is almost always defined in material terms, typified by individuals (usually men) who have considerable wealth. But classed, gendered, and racialized social …
Out There/In Here
Moving between the spaces of the outside community and prison-"out there" and "in here"-this study explores the complicated connections between masculinity and violence in the …
Criminalizing Women
This reference focuses on the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. Exploring women`s lives as "errant females," this …
Indians Wear Red
With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond …
Locating Law
These essays not only assist efforts to locate law`s current status, they generate new insights and understandings of the (inter)connections between race, class, and gender.
Coming Back to Jail
Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack’s Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women’s abuse histories and their law violations as well as their …
The Power to Criminalize
The tension between traditionalist legal theories that maintain that the law dispenses justice in an impartial fashion and critical theories that maintain that the law reproduces …