The neoliberal era has witnessed rapid and fundamental transformations in criminal justice institutions, expanding their role around the globe as charted by a variety of scholars. This dissertation takes up the case of Turkey, where a new neoliberal- politics of crime has been s…
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Social policies that criminalize students can create a school environment that pushes immigrant students out of school and into immigration enforcement agencies' crosshairs. The school-to-prison pipeline is a well-documented phenomenon rooted in institutional racism and affects …
This project interrogates the weaponization of heteronormative marriage in processes of state formation and in relation to practices of polygamy. This dissertation explores how gender and race have been used at the service of the white settler-colonial state via the criminalizat…
In Victorian Glasgow, marital cruelty was understood by both the civil legal system and broader society to include emotional, psychological, verbal, economic, and physical abuses. In contrast to existing historiography, this thesis rests on the quantitative analysis of records o…
While accounting for less than 5 percent of the Canadian population, Indigenous peoplesrepresent more than 30 percent of the federal prison population of Canada. In a prairie province like Manitoba the numbers are even more extreme, with over three-quarters of the prison populat…
Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and child sex trafficking involve the sexual abuse, exploitation, and the trafficking of minors for financial benefits or in exchange for something valuable, which may include monetary or nonmonetary benefits that are given or re…
This doctoral thesis examines transnational flows of scientific and social knowledge which shaped the understanding and experience of sexually dissident masculinities in Britain in a period of west European reconstruction and Cold War politics. Focussing on male homosexuality, t…
This thesis examines two phenomena often seen as existing on the periphery of terrorism research; ‘lone wolf terrorists’ and the relationship between terrorism and organised crime (the crime/terror nexus). The thesis contends that rather than being at the periphery of terrorism …
The objective of this paper is to provide a synthesis and critical evaluation of how the discourse on trafficking is mobilized in feminist debates on prostitution and sex work. I am using the method of discourse analysis introduced by Foucault and Nazzaro (1972) to challenge the…
Working with Girls for Gender Equity, the ‘metoo’ movement, and the Firecracker Foundation, I learned from youth Black girl organizers and survivors and adult advocates and allies that the state primarily offers Black girl survivors ankle monitors and parole officers over healin…