Background The enforcement of drug laws in the United States has been heavily racialized.
A substantial proportion of individuals arrested and prosecuted for drug possession in …

Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between
law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable …

Cannabis control policies in a few countries have recently shifted from criminal prohibition-
based regimes to legalization of use and supply. While cannabis' newly emerging status of …

I argue that there are unconsidered complexities to police legitimacy and use examples from
my study of police–public consultation forums in Edinburgh, Scotland to illustrate. I make a …

Connections among race, crime, and criminal justice are often portrayed in Canadian media
images and are captured in the popular imagination. Yet, in comparison to the United States …

This paper examines the impact of Canada's war on drugs on segments of the Black
community, specifically with respect to the impact of structural violence, over-policing, and …

What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their
futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a …

Racially disaggregated incarceration data are an important indicator of population health
and well-being, but are lacking in the Canadian context. We aimed to describe incarceration …

Despite the substantial body of literature on racial disparities in child welfare involvement in
the Unites States, there is relatively little research on such differences for Canadian children …

Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot.
In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized …