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Taking a concise, critical approach, the fifth edition of Crime in Canadian Context: Debates and Controversies draws on up-to-date statistics and research, controversial issues, and contemporary examples to provide a detailed introduction to crime in Canada. Praised for being a well-researched and accessible guide, this text offers a balanced overview of the essential concepts and skills required to excel in the study of crime.

Social Movements, third edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for social movements courses offered out of sociology, labour studies, and political science departments in both colleges and universities. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories.

This wide-ranging collection of essays explores aspects of historical remembering in Canadian literature. Essays consider a range of topics, from Canada's earliest historical narratives to its most recent, and are representative of the country's regional character, as well as of the ongoing movement of peoples in immigration and diaspora. The book's division into five parts (amnesia, postmemory, recovery work, trauma, and globalization) reflect the many ways the pastinfuses the present, and how the present adapts the past.

Law and Society Redefined is a rigorous introduction to the sociology of law. Drawing on the foundational contributions of such prominent social theorists as Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Michel Foucault, this text uses social theory to explore the relationship between law and society.