Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English
The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …
complex intersections of organised and directed crime, ignorance, economic desperation, a desire to buck …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.
suicide, institutional abuse, child abuse, violent crime, racist language in quotations, and other issues … osition which is laid out in the Prevention of Crime Act (1908) and10 | Prisoners’ Bodies the Criminal … was overtaken by the changing discourses around crime, and drugs, in particular, in the mid-1980s and … of this growth was driven by the growth in petty crime associated with the heroin epidemic as well as … ‘social control and protection, deterrence of crime’, ‘punishment of offenders’, ‘enforcement of justice’ …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English
A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …
(The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Writer’s Digest), a crime novel (I adore Tana French), and kids’ book series … yourself why. I love crime fiction, and have won an award for writing crime fiction, but it’s taken … in understanding the psychological impact of a crime on people around the victim. In my ya novel, The … (whether the book is science fiction, historical, crime, romance, etc.). ya sci-fi, for example, shows …
Fraser Institute · 16 October 2024 English
The annual index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which people in 165 jurisdictions around the globe are allowed to make their own economic choices. …
contracts, protection of real property, and police and crime. The rating for Area 2 is adjusted based on a gender-disparity … property D. Military interference H. Police and crime Note: Area 2 ratings are calculated with adjustments …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …
ground of popular resentment around immigration, crime and party politics” (2013, 11). These very important …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …
In 1946, Roditi served as an interpreter for the International Military Tribunal’s war crimes trials in Nuremberg, an experience … at the Nuremberg trials, “how prudishly the Allied prosecutors re- frained most of the time from mentioning in Court the crimes …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two …
the people being assisted as being guilty of a crime; rather, they see laws around immigration documentation … the west. Riel was tried and convicted for this crime and executed on 16 November 1885. As a young man …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
celluloid film. Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke), a true-crime writer, discovers in the attic of his new home …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English
“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …
Terrorism and Head of the Foreign Service’s effort on crime, fraud and money laundering.” Pure co- incidence …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English
101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …
Another episode that fell under CRTC scrutiny was “Crime and Vandalism,” for fear of potentially negatively …