Dangerous Men (eBook)

Ideology and the Personification of Evil

Matthew G. Yeager (Autor)

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2021
289 Seiten
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-6505-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume offers an important analysis of dangerous offender (DO) legislation and related designations in Canada. It is a timely and important topic given the predominance of neo-liberal and neo-conservative conceptualizations of crime and its control in both contemporary Canada and the world, especially from the psychoanalytic point of view. The book develops a political economy of dangerousness through an examination of official definitions of "e;high-risk convicts"e;. A series of case studies, interviews and literature reviews serve to demonstrate various applications of dangerousness, and situate these legal/judicial processes within their broader ideological and political context. This is a highly marginalized and disreputable penal population in criminology, and the book argues that the label of dangerousness obscures the social and economic conditions that many convicts experience throughout their lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2021
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 1-5275-6505-X / 152756505X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-6505-0 / 9781527565050