Crime In Canada

Author : Laureen Snider
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552667538

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About Canada: Corporate Crime by Laureen Snider Pdf

When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account. The monetary costs of Criminal Code theft pale in comparison, and yet our prisons are filled with people who commit “street theft.” In order to understand why governments, regulators, unions, activists and community groups have such a difficult time preventing and sanctioning corporate criminals we must first recognize the vital role of corporate economic power. Focusing on crimes against workers/employees, and the environment and financial crimes, About Canada: Corporate Crime traces the ways that particular systems of government — from nineteenth-century crony capitalism to neoliberalism and globalized capitalism — develop policies regarding the socially harmful and illegal behaviour of corporations. This book shows why governments are reluctant to pass, enforce and administer meaningful regulation of corporations: institutions and actors with the power to put thousands of potential voters out of work, generate negative commentaries from highly respected experts, and produce critical editorials from 80 percent of Canadian media (owned and controlled, let us remember, by many of these same corporations). Assessing the present state and future prospects of corporate crime, this book asks: How did we get here? What do we know about corporate crime? Why does it matter? and What are the main issues/developments today? In the end, it asks the most important question of all: How can political and economic systems be changed to prevent, or at the very least mitigate, the tremendous damage corporate activities are inflicting on human lives, health, jobs, communities and economies?

Author : Diane Crocker
Publisher : Issues in Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195432479

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Crime in Canada by Diane Crocker Pdf

In this short and accessible introduction, criminologist Diane Crocker evaluates the latest Canadian data to reveal how well our justice system reflects the values and expectations of Canadians. Crocker presents a thorough examination of the various ways Canadians address crime, from prison, parole, and rehabilitation to prevention, restorative justice, and harm-reduction strategies. The result is an informative overview of the latest research and government policies behind these key issues in Canada. --Book Jacket.

Author : Stephen Schneider
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780470835005

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Iced by Stephen Schneider Pdf

"You're lucky he didn't have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs." -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice. Organized crime is as old as this nation's founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nation's earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits. Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history.

Author : Chris McCormick,Christopher Ray McCormick,Len Green
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551302744

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Crime and Deviance in Canada by Chris McCormick,Christopher Ray McCormick,Len Green Pdf

This unique and timely collection brings together 24 of the very best and most controversial readings on the history of crime, deviance and criminal justice in Canada. Divided into five sections, the first part of Crime and Deviance examines developing issues in crime and punishment while the second part introduces key aspects of a 'working criminal justice system'. Policing ethnicity is the focus of section three, which includes articles on the relocation phenomenon and the Africville study as well as Ontario Aboriginal women confronting the criminal justice system, 1920-1960. Similarly, regulating gender and sexuality, section four, examines moral reform in English Canada, 1885-1925; and anti-homosexual campaigns in the Canadian Civil Service in the mid-20th century. The final section profiles the moral regulation of behaviour. Articles in this section include non-medical opiate use and control policies in Canada, 1870-1970; as well as moral fervour and the evolution of Canada's prostitution laws, 1867-1917. Power relations is a very strong unifying theme that is, relations of gender, social class, ethnicity and age. regulation of sexuality, we can trace these relations of power and how they link to the definition of crime in society. Canada's top criminologists and social critics are included in this special collection. This impressive list includes Russell Smandych, Rick Linden, Constance Backhouse, Helen Boritch, John Hagan, Carolyn Strange, Tina Loo, Joan Sangster, Mariana Valverde, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Gary Kinsman and Robert Menzies.

Author : Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015033595284

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The Canada Year Book by Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics Pdf

Author : Lisa Monchalin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442606647

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The Colonial Problem by Lisa Monchalin Pdf

Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem." In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian problem" and encourages readers to view the crimes and injustices affecting Indigenous peoples from a more culturally aware position. She analyzes the consequences of assimilation policies, dishonoured treaty agreements, manipulative legislation, and systematic racism, arguing that the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian criminal justice system is not an Indian problem but a colonial one.

Author : Ian McDermid Gomme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774736194

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The Shadow Line by Ian McDermid Gomme Pdf

Author : Wendy Chan,Dorothy Chunn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442605749

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Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada by Wendy Chan,Dorothy Chunn Pdf

Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional analysis, Chan and Chunn explore how the connection between race and crime is further affected by class, gender, and other social relations.The text covers not only conventional topics such as policing, sentencing, and the media, but also neglected areas such as the criminalization of immigration, poverty, and mental illness.

Author : Kevin Annett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 1530145619

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Murder by Decree by Kevin Annett Pdf

The Anti-racism collection has been created by Lethbridge Public Library and the City of Lethbridge Diversity and Inclusion Working Group to provide resources about anti-racism education, history, and perspective. Anti-racism is defined by the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre as the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably.

Author : Stephen Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Organized crime
ISBN : 1773380249

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Canadian Organized Crime by Stephen Schneider Pdf

An introductory examination of the major crime groups in Canada, this text presents contemporary case studies and criminal justice policies to assess which enforcement strategies are best suited to control organised crime. Stephen Schneider provides readers with a broad understanding of the social, political, and economic forces that lead to the continued existence of organised criminal activities.

Author : Peter Edwards,Luis Najera
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780735275416

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The Wolfpack by Peter Edwards,Luis Najera Pdf

Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico. A man watching the Euro Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver hotel lobby are gunned down in an attack that sends an American soccer star scrambling for cover. In Mexico, a Canadian is killed at a Nuevo Vallarta coffee shop, his death barely registering amidst the terrifying death tolls of President Calderón’s war on drugs and the cartels’ response; while a Montreal cop is beaten within an inch of his life in a Playa del Carmen nightclub. An infamous heckler from an NBA Toronto Raptors game turns up dead in a bullet-riddled car in a midtown lane-way. Throughout the 2010s, these and other disparate acts of violence entered the public awareness like iso-lated tragedies—but there was nothing isolated about them. In this masterly investigation, veteran journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera introduce readers to the common cause of a near-decade of chaos. Meet the Wolfpack, millennial-aged gangsters from across the spectrum of Canada’s underworld. Vying to fast-track their way into the criminal void left by the death of Montreal godfather Vito Rizzuto, the Wolfpack sought advantage in a steady supply of cocaine from El Chapo Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel, among the deadliest and most far-reaching of criminal organizations. The juniors had just stepped into the big leagues. This is the roiling landscape of The Wolfpack, a brilliant examination of a time of criminal disruption and rapid adaptation, when one gang’s unchecked ambition unwittingly gave away the most hotly contested corner of the Canadian underworld without a fight. Brazen criminal disruptors or entitled upstarts looking to get rich without paying their dues--whatever you think of them, you will never forget the Wolfpack.

Author : John Hamilton Baker,Calgary Institute for the Humanities
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889201187

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Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada by John Hamilton Baker,Calgary Institute for the Humanities Pdf

How is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe and North America? These and other questions were addressed at an international conference on crime and criminal justice at The University of Calgary attended by historians, professors of law, judges, and criminologists. The essays in Part I consider the evolution of criminal law doctrine, and those in Part II analyse the theory and measurement of crime in the past and at present. Parts III and IV examine the courts and prosecution, and Part V assesses the historical roots of the insanity defence and the theory and practice of punishment. The volume will be of interest, across national boundaries, to historians, sociologists, social workers, lawyers, and persons involved in the administration of justice as well as the general reader concerned about civil rights, social values, and justice. The eighteen contributors include F.H. Baker, J.M. Beattie, W.A. Calder, T.C. Curtis, D. Hay, H. Diederiks, A. Lachance, His Honour W.G. Morrow, A. Soman, and S. Verdun-Jones.

Author : Jerry Langton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781443432573

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Cold War by Jerry Langton Pdf

Organized crime in Canada has long been dominated by the Hells Angels and their friends in the Rizzuto crime family. Over the years, they have brought many street gangs into their alliance, most notably the Indian Posse, many sets of the Crips, the Independent Soldiers and the Red Scorpions. The key to their allegiance is that the Hells Angels and the Rizzutos could always get the commodities—marijuana, cocaine, meth, Ecstasy, cash, steroids—that fed organized crime. But their strong-arm tactics have created an opposition including the Cotroni family, the Musitanos, the Outlaws, the Bandidos, the Rock Machine—all less familiar names to Canadians. And the opposition is now standing up to the stalwart Canadian kingpins. Canada’s crime families, bikers and youth gangs are waging a war for supremacy across the country, and innocent people often get in the way. In Cold War, bestselling author Jerry Langton explains the history of the rivalries, the current tensions and the build-up of anti–Hells Angels/Rizzuto family forces in Canada. In unprecedented detail, Langton outlines the risk and the fallout of Canada’s true-crime cold war.

Author : Bradley Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501273

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Borderline Crime by Bradley Miller Pdf

Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.

Author : Robert A. Silverman,Vincent F. Sacco,James J. Teevan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0774733985

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Crime in Canadian Society by Robert A. Silverman,Vincent F. Sacco,James J. Teevan Pdf