Panoptic Dreams
Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada
A definitive study of the implementation and implications of streetscape video surveillance systems in Canada.
The Practice of Execution in Canada
The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.
Constructing Crime
Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
Five unique case studies reveal how crime is being constructed and enforced in contemporary Canada.
Justice Bertha Wilson
One Woman’s Difference
This timely, evocative book showcases Bertha Wilson’s contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and explores the issues that this controversial personality grappled with in her life and career.
The Duty to Consult
New Relationships with Aboriginal Peoples
What does the duty to consult actually mean, and when it is required? The policies and decisions made regarding this duty are concisely outlined, along with important questions that remain.
Surveillance
Power, Problems, and Politics
This book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.
Multi-Party Litigation
The Strategic Context
Drawing upon insights from law and politics, Multi-Party Litigation outlines the historical development, political design, and regulatory desirability of multi-party litigation strategies in cross-national perspective and describes a battle being fought on multiple fronts by competing interests.
Murdering Holiness
The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell
Murdering Holiness explores the story of the "Holy Roller" sect led by Franz Creffield, a charismatic, self-styled messiah, in the early years of the 20th century.
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution
The essays illustrate how deeply multiculturalism is woven into the fabric of the Canadian constitution and the everyday lives of Canadians.
Criminal Artefacts
Governing Drugs and Users
By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices.
The New Lawyer
How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law
This provocative, intelligent work looks at the evolving role of lawyers, articulating legal and ethical complexities, the growth of conflict resolution, and the increasing impact of alternative strategies on the lawyer-client relationship and the legal system.