WOME 3355
Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Fall 2022
Readings
- Sherene Razack, “Gendered Violence and Spacialized Justice”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 15 92) (2000), 91-130.
- Kristen Gilchrist, “Newsworthy Victims? Exploring differences in Canadian local press coverage of missing/murdered Aboriginal and white women”, Feminist Media Studies 10 (4) (2010), 373-390.
- Josephine Savarese, “Challenging Colonial Norms and Attending to Presencing in Stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 29 (1) (2017), 157.
- Isabel Grant and Janine Benedet, “The ‘Statutory Rape’ Myth: A Case Law Study of Sexual Assault against Adolescent Girls”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 31 (2) (2019), 266-292.
- Jodie Murphy, Lori Chambers, Karen McQueen, Alexa Hiebert, and Ainsley Miller, “Sexual Assault: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Being Disbelieved by Police”, Violence Against Women, April 14, 2021: DOI:
- Lori Chambers and Nadia Verrelli, “A Missed Opportunity: The Investigation into the RCMP in Matters Related to R. v. Ryan”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 32 (1) (2017), 117-136.
- Lori Chambers and Nadia Verrelli, “Paternal Filicide and Coercive Control: A Review of the Evidence in Cotton v. Berry, University of British Columbia Law Review 51 (3) (2018), 671-704. NOTE: Article review is due today.
- Wanda Wiegers, “Feminist Protest and the Regulation of Misogynist Speech: A Case Study of The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission v. Engineering Students’ Society”, Ottawa Law Review 24 (1992), 366-435.
- Abbee Corb, “Hate and Hate Crime in Canada”, in ed. Nathan Hall, Abbee Corb, Paul Giannasi and John Grieve, The Routledge Handbook of Hate Crime (Routledge, 2014), 163-173.
- Media, Culture 8 (1) (2011), 57-73.
- L. Karaian and K. VanMeyl, “Reframing Risque/Risky: Queer Temporalities, Teenage Sexting and Freedom of Expression”, Laws 4 (1) (2015), 18-36:
- Lauren Sampson, “The Obscenities of this Country: Canada v. Bedford and the Reform of Canada’s Prostitution Laws”, Duke Journal of Gender, Law and Policy 22 (1) (2014-2015), 137-172.
- Andrea Starling and Emily van der Meulen, “We Are Not Criminals: Sex Work Clients in Canada and the Constitution of Risk Knowledge”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33 (3) (2018), 291-308.
- Sarah Hamill, “Caught Between Deference and Indifference: The Right to Housing in Canada”, Canadian Journal of Human Rights 7 (2018), 67.
- Leah Hamilton and James Mulvale, “’Human Again’: The (Unrealized) Promise of Basic Income in Ontario”, Journal of Poverty 23 (7) (2019):
- Clayton Mosher, “Minorities and Misdemeanors: The treatment of black public order offenders in Ontario’s criminal justice system, 1892-1930”, Canadian Journal of Criminology 38 (4) (1996), 413-430.
- Salina Abji, “Punishing Survivors and Criminalizing Survivorship: A Feminist Intersectional Approach to Migrant Justice in the Crimmigration System”, Studies in Social Justice 14 (1) (2020), 67-89.
- Charissa Crepault and Jennifer Kilty, “Mainstream Media and the F-Word: Documentary Coherence and the Exclusion of Feminist Narrative in The Fifth Estate Coverage of the Ashley Smith Case”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 32 (2) (2017), 269-290.
- David Tanovich, “The Charter of Whiteness: Twenty-Five Years of Maintaining Racial Injustice in the Canadian Criminal Justice System”, Supreme Court Law Review (2008), 655-686. NOTE: Creative journal is due today.
- Noel Semple, “Male, Pale and Stale: Diversity in Lawyers’ Leadership”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 31 (3) (2016), 405-428.
- Marisa Silvestri, “Disrupting the Heroic Male Within Policing”, Feminist Criminology 13 (3) (2018), 309-328.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2022
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.