This textbook introduces readers to theories and critiques of traditional approaches to deviance and conformity. Using vivid and timely examples of contemporary social regulation and control, the book ...

In August of 2016, Cree youth Colten Boushie was shot dead by Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley. Using colonial and socio-political narratives that underlie white rural settler life, the authors position ...

Après avoir documenté les violences sexuelles commises envers les personnes de la diversité sexuelle, les auteurs suggèrent d’adapter l’intervention publique en conséquence.

L’intervention psychosociale est le terrain où se meuvent les problématiques de toutes sortes, souvent plus complexes les unes que les autres. Elle est aussi l’aire où les dynamismes générateurs ...

Racial profiling is a hot-button topic that elicits strong responses on both sides. A series of public discussions has so far failed to yield a conclusive consensus. Racial Profiling and Human Rights ...

This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we’re allowed to “go” in public. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, and in cities from London to San Francisco to Toronto, No Place ...

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration ...

When Dr. David Kirkpatrick’s wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2007, their lives—and their marriage—would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, sometimes heartbreaking account ...

Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills, and official documents from the 1700s to the ...