TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yeager,Matthew G.
TI  - Dangerous Men: Ideology and the Personification of Evil
SN  - 9781527565050
AV  - HV6807 .D364 2021
KW  - Violent offenders
KW  - Canada
KW  - Violent crimes
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 2; b
N2  - This volume offers an important analysis of dangerous offender (DO) legislation and related designations in Canada. It is a timely and important topic given the predominance of neo-liberal and neo-conservative conceptualizations of crime and its control in both contemporary Canada and the world, especially from the psychoanalytic point of view. The book develops a political economy of dangerousness through an examination of official definitions of ""high-risk convicts"". A series of case studies, interviews and literature reviews serve to demonstrate various applications of dangerousness, and
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