Debating Rights Inflation in Canada

By Dominique Clément
Subjects: Law, Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, Social Policy
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 ...

After Prison

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

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 ...

Struggles for Justice in Canada and Mexico

By Linda Snyder
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Development Studies, Political Science, Social Policy

Struggles for Justice in Canada and Mexico examines Canadian and Mexican communities engaged in collective action to address problems related to the context of aggressive capitalism, which favours economic ...

With Children and Youth

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

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 ...

Canada the Good

By Marcel Martel
Subjects: Political Science, Social Policy, History, Canadian History, Cultural Studies

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take ...

Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

Edited by Anne Westhues and Brian Wharf
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Political Science, Social Services, Social Work, Social Policy, Sociology

Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, ...

Child Welfare

Edited by Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Political Science, Social Policy

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, ...

Incorrigible

By Velma Demerson
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Political Science, Social Policy, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that ...

A Question of Commitment

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

In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights ...