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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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

think is cliché. With your film noir Hong Kong crime mysteries. Black and white. I took a canoe across


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

be an excuse, an explanation, a mea culpa, or a crime.” Accidents can be distinguished from disasters


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

inter- ests that fuelled this research: histories of crime, gender, and urban space (Eloise Moss and Charlotte economic prospects against a background of poverty, crime, and moral degrada- tion, concentrating on the North ostensibly before children fell into sin (i.e., crime). This became the ideological basis for child separation fervent Catholic family. In Canada, to miss Mass is a crime practically unknown. The Very Reverend Canon Keating Canadian familial and religious life where even the ‘crime’ of missing mass was supposedly unheard-of (a slight-


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

dilapi- dated buildings, decaying infrastructure, crime, and intense vio- lence, Trench Town was home to


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

or imagined, has found a place on the midway. Crime, war, and drug abuse shows operated under the guise


Mackenzie Institute · 28 June 2024 English

(Written by Kate E. Todd. Originally published here at the NATO Association of Canada, republished with permission.) Canada, as...


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

American/hire American policies will backfire Guns reduce crime Aid to Africa is doing more harm than good Global


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. …

1897, he was ‘appalled at the enormity of the crime I was about to commit against my loving parents


CHB: Coach House Books · 11 June 2024 English

A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head. Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man’s attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to …

was for a film called Better Luck Tomorrow, about a group of Asian-American students committing an escalating series of crimes


DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English

An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …

me is clearly Chinese. “Tax fraud is a serious crime against the state. So is moving assets out of China


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