Music-Making in U.S. Prisons

By Mary L. Cohen & Stuart P. Duncan
Subjects: Law, Music, Education

The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that ...

Cruel But Not Unusual

Edited by Cathy Vine & Ramona Alaggia
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Gender Studies, Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

Debating Rights Inflation in Canada

By Dominique Clément
Subjects: Law, Social Science, Sociology
Series: Canadian Commentaries

Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

By J.C. Blokhuis, Katherine Covell, and R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

After Prison

Edited by Adrienne M.F. Peters & Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Social Policy, Law

Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Kiaras Gharabaghi, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

Surviving Incarceration

By Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, Social Policy, Law, Social Services

Is prison a humane form of punishment and an effective means of rehabilitation? Are current prison policies, such as shifting resources away from rehabilitation toward housing more offenders, improving ...

Blocking Public Participation

By Byron Sheldrick
Subjects: Political Science, Law

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly ...

Youth, Education, and Marginality

Edited by Kate Tilleczek & H. Bruce Ferguson
Subjects: Education, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: SickKids Community and Mental Health

Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators are complemented by youth poetry, ...