Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4664 The course explores the politics of contemporary Canadian policing in the context of the history of modern governance. It explores the police role in society and interrogates policing in terms of fairness, inequality, discrimination and social justice. It further explores the relationship between policing, media, law, politics and social order, emphasizing the […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4665 This course examines the global approaches to the detection, investigation, and enforcement of a broad variety of internet crimes and technology-related crimes with a particular focus on the efforts of non-state actors. It considers technology both as a target and tool of regulation. Among the topics considered are the transnational regulation of […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4663 The course introduces students to victimology, the diverse theoretical approaches in the field, and the politics of the victim label, from a critical perspective. Topics include victim precipitation theories and victim-blaming; contemporary, critical and radical perspectives in victimology; victims’ rights movements; and existing programs and rights instruments for victims in Canada. Victimology […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4662 This seminar course takes an intersectional, critical, and practical approach to Canadian criminal justice policy through theoretical engagement, discursive and practical policy analysis in a highly participatory seminar format. Topics considered include the relationship between criminal and regulatory tools, their enforcement, and social norms; the effects of criminal justice policy on diverse […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4661 This course examines theory, practice and research on surveillance from a criminological perspective. It places particular emphasis on the role of surveillance in crime control and law enforcement as well as on the history of surveillance and current forms of surveillance. The human rights implications of surveillance are also examined in relation […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4660 What does the criminalization of dissent tell us about the social, political and economic relations of the Canadian state in the context of neoliberalism and interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and racism? This seminar interrogates the politics of criminalization processes through a focus on the relationship between the state and political […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4659 For many years, indigenous peoples have been over-criminalized and over-incarcerated in the Canadian criminal justice system. Indigenous peoples constitute approximately 20-25% of the male federal inmate population, and 30% of the federal female inmate population and the numbers are even higher in many provincial institutions. In addition, fully half of all the […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4658 From forced sterilization and settler violence to drug laws and mass internment to refugee policies, border policing, detention and deportation, the domains of border governance and criminal justice in Canada intersect in a variety of important, historically specific ways. These intersections can be found at the levels of discourse (‘the criminal foreigner’), […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4657 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The sub-prime mortgage crisis. Silicone breast implants. Deteriorating food quality. These are all examples of harmful practices associated with the activities of modern corporations. However, rather than crimes, these harms are usually treated as regulatory, administrative, or ethical breaches, or simply as the costs of doing business, […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4655 This course examines the microsocial and macrosocial forms of violence. The course explores how violence operates as a form of social control rather than as a psychological impulse or biological drive. Myths and misconceptions about violence are measured against criminological, cultural and sociological theories of violence. The course examines numerous manifestations of […]