In Diversity, Crime, and Justice in Canada hate-crime specialist Barbara Perry brings together 17 of the country's leading scholars to address issues of inequality as they intersect with crime and social justice. Students will discover how collective identities - not just of race, class, and gender, but of religion, ability, sexuality, age - play a crucial part in determining the nature of an individual's encounter with the criminal justice system. Integrating themes of history and context, power and powerlessness, and social and political action throughout, the text examines the concept of difference, the specific issues that different groups face with respect to the justice system, and the kinds of reform necessary to mitigate inequalities. Exploring a range of cutting-edge topics, this is an invaluable resource for any course that examines social inequality in relation to the Canadian criminal justice system.

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Barbara Perry is Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She has written extensively in the area of hate crime, and is completing a British Home Office project on anti-racism programming in England and Wales. In Canada, her research is focussed on anti-Muslim violence, and hate crime against Aboriginal people.

"There is indeed a need for a textbook that directly addresses the issues of diversity, crime, and criminal justice in Canada." "Often texts in this field do not speak to the actual practitioners in the appropriate fields of study, but this text [does] just that, which is very important." --Michael Boudreau, St. Thomas University

"This text is important for increasing sensitivity to difference and diversity for students, teachers, and practitioners in criminal justice, social work, community justice, and related fields and for those who study, influence, shape or otherwise inform justice policy." --Tom Allen, Kwantlen Polytechnic University