Locating Law, 3rd Edition

Elizabeth Comack is a professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba. Over the past three decades she has written and conducted research on a variety of social justice topics. Her most recent book is Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People's Encounters with the Police (Fernwood 2012). Elizabeth's current research projects stem from her involvement in the Manitoba Research Alliance's SSHRC Partnership project, "Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty." Elizabeth leads the Justice, Safety, and Security stream of the project

• Section One: Theoretical Approaches In The Sociology Of Law Theoretical Excursions (Elizabeth Comack) Section Two: Racism And The Law Introduction Standing Against Canadian Law: Naming Omissions of Race, Culture, and Gender (Patricia Monture) "Managing" Canadian Immigration: Racism, Racialization, and the Law (Lisa Marie Jakubowski and Elizabeth Comack) Colonialism, Systemic Discrimination, and the Crisis of Indigenous Over-incarceration: Challenges of Reforming the Sentencing Process (David Milward and Debra Parkes) Section Three: Class Interests And The Law Introduction Locating Labour Law: Conflicting Perspectives and the Case of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (Eric Tucker) Rhetoric vs. Reality: The Breakdown of Canada's Corporate Crime Laws (Steven Bittle and Laureen Snider) The Construction of "Welfare Fraud" and the Wielding of the State's Iron Fist (Janet E. Mosher) Section Four: Gender, Sexuality, And The Law Introduction Feminism, Law, and "The Family": Assessing the Reform Legacy (Dorothy E. Chunn) "Sex Was in the Air": Pernicious Myths and Other Problems with Sexual Violence Prosecution (Karen Busby) Governing Obscenity and Indecency in Canada (Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar)

"This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics often perpetuating oppression. - Locating Law is essential for undergraduate students in justice, sociology and criminology." - Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina "Students regularly tell me that Locating Law is their favourite book out of the selections for the Law and Society course. The case studies are sufficiently different from one another that the students deepen their general knowledge, and they appreciate the fact that the chapters are written in a style they can understand." - Jennifer Jarman, Lakehead University