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The Legal Dimensions Initiative

Results of the 2002 Annual Legal Dimensions Initiative

What is a Crime?

The Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the Canadian Law and Society Association, the Canadian Council of Law Deans, and the Law Commission of Canada are pleased to announce the results of the fourth Annual Legal Dimensions Initiative.

The theme for the 2002 competition was "What is a Crime?" In all, thirty-three proposals were received from scholars in law, philosophy, policy studies, sociology, women's studies and criminology. The co-sponsors were pleased to have received proposals of such quality from both English and French language scholars from across Canada.

A selection committee comprising members from each co-sponsoring organization examined the proposals. As a result of this process, contracts will be awarded to the following individuals:

1. Jean-Paul Brodeur, International Criminology Centre, University of Montreal
   Y a-t-il un noyau dur dans la notion de crime?
   
2. Wendy Chan, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
   Undocumented Migrants and Bill C-11: The criminalization of race
   
3. Richard V. Ericson, Green College, University of British Columbia and Aaron Doyle, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
   What is Fraud?
   
4. Steven Penney, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick
   Crime, Copyright, and the Digital Age
   
5. Pierre Rainville, Faculty of Law, Laval University
   Du mauvais plaisant au délinquant : réflexion sur la notion de « crime »
   
6. Laureen Snider, Department of Sociology, Queen's University.
   Zero Tolerance Reversed: Constituting the Non-Culpable Subject in Walkerton
   

2002 Annual Legal Dimensions Initiative,
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