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This collection of original essays, by some of the best known contemporary criminal law theorists, tackles a range of issues about the criminal law's 'special p

This collection of essays reflects on the processes of defining crime, and considers the varied and complex implications of our decisions to criminalize certain

Written by an internationally renowned authority in the field, the founder of the highly regarded School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the book dra

Designed for undergraduate criminology courses, this book actively involves students in the literature of the discipline, presents the field in a format that is