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  • Thin Blue Rage

    The Police Countermovement

    Policing agencies in Canada continue to face criticism over their outsized use of violence in response to encampments of unhoused people, protests against police brutality, and sites of environmental activism and Indigenous land defence. Feeling victimized and misunderstood, police officers increasingly rally behind the idea of a “thin blue line,” characterizing themselves as guardians of ... Read more

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  • Disability Injustice

    Confronting Criminalization in Canada

    Series series Disability Culture and Politics
    Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous – even deadly – for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront ... Read more

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  • Protests in the Information Age

    Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
    Information and communication technologies have transformed the dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing social movements throughout different parts of the world. Concurrently, the same technologies have been taken up by public authorities ... Read more

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  • Policing Indigenous Movements

    Dissent and the Security State

    In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and successfully slowed the rate of resource extraction.But their success has also ... Read more

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  • Security Aid

    Canada and the Development Regime of Security

    Canada is actively involved through various agencies in the domestic affairs of countries in the Global South. Over time, these practices – rationalized as a form of humanitarian assistance − have become increasingly focused on enhancing regimes of surveillance, policing, prisons, border control, and security governance.Drawing on an array of previously classified materials and interviews with ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Criminological Issues

    Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion

    Series series Standalone titles
    Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues—from the criminalization of Indigenous peoples to interpersonal violence, border control, and armed conflicts—,advances cutting-edge theories and methods to make sense of these issues, and proposes policy responses that promote social inclusion and security.This book ... Read more

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  • Madness, Violence, and Power

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    Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, ... Read more

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  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

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    The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

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    British social reformer Robert Owen once declared that "man is the creature of circumstances." A century and a half later, his famous words still ring true. While many adopt a fatalist approach, believing that their lot in life is inevitable, in fact a number of highly complex social factors determine the outcome of our socioeconomic status and integration into society. It may seem unfair, but the ... Read more

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