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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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


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …

sharing and caring. There was no discrimination, crime, drugs, alcohol or welfare; just a plain and simple


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

formations and the national identities that sometimes enable them as a matter of being either disempowered or complicit in the crimes


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 25 September 2024 English

In an operation which it calls an "open-ended battle of reckoning," it said these actions were carried out "in support of our steadfast Palestinian people and honorable Resistance in the …

/Zionist war crimes aimed at terrorizing the Lebanese people by targeting them and their infrastructure and blaming Hezbollah This is how this defining moment in history poses itself in the face of the crimes the U.S.


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