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The article discusses various approaches to crime in Canada, the effects of federal political antipathy toward criminological knowledge, and evidence-informed policies for criminological research and political policy prescriptions. Topics include public criminology, the negative consequences of comm...

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Main Author: Deshman, Abby (Author)
Contributors: Hannah-Moffat, Kelly
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
In: Social justice
Year: 2015, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 91-112
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:
Crime
Criminal Law
Criminal justice system > Canada
Criminologists
Criminology
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Summary:The article discusses various approaches to crime in Canada, the effects of federal political antipathy toward criminological knowledge, and evidence-informed policies for criminological research and political policy prescriptions. Topics include public criminology, the negative consequences of commodification of criminological knowledge and government use of administrative criminology and "policy criminology," and the role criminologists in the politics of crime and criminal justice.