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Criminalized men tell us how they overcame trauma, racism, poverty, and abuse. Personal and institutional supports of caring are key - being cared for and caring for others.

These essays not only assist efforts to locate law`s current status, they generate new insights and understandings of the (inter)connections between race, class, and gender.

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Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack's Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women's abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What has changed for incarcerated women in those twenty years?

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Taking on the controversial subject of racial profiling by Canadian police, this book explores how ethnicity and discrimination play out in institutional practices and systemic processes, exposing the ways in which policing is racialized. The volume draws on the historical records and contemporary cases of Aboriginal-police relations--such as the shootings of J. J. Harper and Matthew Dumas by Winnipeg police officers and the "Starlight Tours" ...

Law's power to criminalize is formidable. Traditional legal doctrine argues that law dispenses justice in an impartial and unbiased fashion. Critical legal theorists claim that law reproduces gender, race and class inequalities. This text offers an analysis that acknowledges the tensions between these two views of law.

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A primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the "law-society" relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis, it both shapes - and is shaped by - the society in which it operates. This book explores the law-society relation by locating law within the nexus of race/class/gender/sexuality relations in society. In addition to updating the material in the theoretical and substantive chap...