Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada

Mitch Daschuk research focuses on the construction of youth subcultures, punk rock ideology and the representational politics that inform prevalent understandings of criminality and dangerousness. Carolyn Brooks is the department head and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research focuses on youth resilience, violence and theoretical criminology. She is the co-editor of three editions of Marginality and Condemnation. James Popham is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he researches issues of cyber criminality, technology and social empowerment.

Contents: The Study of Social Control (M.D. Daschuk and James F. Popham) * Classical Notes on Norms, Deviance and Identity (M.D. Daschuk) * Defining Deviance, Critical, Feminist and Anti-Oppressive Theories of Social Control (Carolyn Brooks) * Research Methods, Statistics and Listening to Unheard Voices (James F. Popham) * Conditions, Claims and Social Problems Frames (Sean P. Hier) * The History and Continuing Repercussions of Canadian Drug Rhetoric (M.D. Daschuk) * Social Control of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Plus People in Canada (Carolyn Brooks and Kirby Brigden) * The Construction of Disability in Canadian Immigration Policy as a Means of Social Control (Edward Hon-Sing Wong and Thania Vega) * Contextualizing Resiliency Through the Lens of Marginalized Youth (Kandis Boyko and M.D. Daschuk) * On the Changing Nature of Claims-Making, Audience Engagement and Social Regulation (Sean P. Hier) * Museums, Policing and the Fairy Tale of "Crime" (Matthew Ferguson) * The Social Control of Sex Work (Carolyn Brooks and Karen Wood) * Social Control, Settler Colonialism and Representations of Violence Against Indigenous Women (Danielle Bird and Julie Kaye) * Social and Panoptic Regulation Through Digital Technologies (James F. Popham) * National Security, Surveillance and the Reproduction of Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada (Scott Thompson) * A Feminist Perspective on Drone Privacy Regulation (Kristen M.J. Thomassen) * Policing Social Movements That Resist Extractive Capitalism (Jeffrey Monaghan and Kevin Walby) * Observations on Social Movements in the Digital Age (M.D. Daschuk) * References * Index