Dany Lacombe

• Chair at Simon Fraser University

How does the Parole Board decide a sex offender is rehabilitated and can be released into the community? This case study of a parole hearing reveals the significance the Parole Board gives to a sex offender's management of his arousal as a clear sign of his rehabilitation. To explain the Board's preoccupation with a sex offender's sexual fantasies...

Dans cet article, nous examinons pourquoi les récents incidents de violence commis par des filles sont interprétés comme un signe qu'aujourd'hui les adolescentes sont de plus en plus dangereuses. Nous démontrons que cette interprétation est le produit d'une panique morale centrée sur le concept du risque. Les politiques de réforme sociale et crimin...

This ethnography of a prison treatment programme for sex offenders examines the meaning of rehabilitation in the context of the ‘new penology’. As it explores how cognitive–behaviourism structures treatment, it uncovers a therapeutics grounded in risk that actively constructs the identity of the sex offender. It shows how the management of risk rel...

Foucault's work on the prison radically transformed the way social scientists conceive the institutional regulation of life. Drawing on Foucault's thesis about the gradual refinement and expansion of mechanisms of control and discipline in modern society, they quickly began to reveal all the micro-powers and technologies of control at work both ins...

With Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault offered the social sciences a theory of power, and conceptual tools that radically transformed law reform studies. In criminology, for example, the social constructionist tradition, by drawing on Foucault's notion of power, increasingly inscribed law reform studies in a narrative of the dispersal of socia...

Der Prozess der Kriminalisierung der Pornographie, der in den achtziger Jahren in Kanada ablief, stellt eine Herausforderung fur das konventionelle Wissen von Soziologie und Kriminologie zur Strafrechtsreform dar. Dieses Wissen aussert sich in einer Argumentation, nach der Strafrechtsreformen, indem sie soziale Kontrolle erweitern, lediglich das Sy...

Thesis (M.A.)--Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, 1984. Includes bibliography.

University Microfilms order no. UMI00308734. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1991. Includes bibliographical references.