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Book SynopsisThis book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is understood, reproduced, and challenged.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking Differently About Crime Part I: Thinking Differently About Crime 1. Michel Foucault: Theories and "Method" (Carmela Murdocca) 2. History Matters (Amanda Glasbeek) 3. The Politics of Representation (Ummni Khan) 4. The Politics of Counting Crime (Michael S. Mopas) Part II: Intersections 5. Racialization, Criminalization, Representation (Carmela Murdocca) 6. Gendering Crime: Men and Masculinities (Ruthann Lee) 7. Women Gone Bad? Women, Criminalization, and Representation (Amanda Glasbeek) 8. Sexual Regulation: Sexing Governmentality; Governing Sex (Deborah Brock) 9. Crime and Social Classes: Regulating and Representing Public Disorder (Marie-Eve Sylvestre) Part III: Emerging Issues in Canada and Beyond: Connecting the Global to the Local 10. Profiles and Profiling Technology: Stereotypes, Surveillance and Governmentality (Martin A. French and Simone A. Browne) 11. Wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency (Anna Pratt) 12. In the Name of Human Rights: Governing and Representing Non-Western Lives Post-9/11 (Marcia Oliver) 13. Where Are All the Corporate Criminals? Understanding Struggles to Criminalize Corporate Harm and Wrongdoing (Steven Bittle) 14. Social Movements and Critical Resistance: Policing Colonial Capitalist Order (Tia Dafnos) Conclusion: Representation, Regulation, and Resistance Glossary Contributors Index
