Danielle Laberge

Women's criminality, criminal women, criminalized women? Questions in and for a feminist perspective

Although the notion of taking gender into account in social analyses has been around for some time, for the large partit has not been taken seriously by criminologists. In this article, Laberge shows how the neglect of womens criminality has been to the detriment of criminological inquiry. Through an examination of the questions usually asked about women in contact with the penal system, the author takes us beyond an ‘additive’ approach to explaining crime. Reorganizing these questions, she outlines a number of analytical distinctions that will transform our understanding of criminalized women, specifically, and criminological inquiry, generally.

From a Methodology Exercise to the Discovery of a Crisis: Serendipity in Field Research

Although serendipity is commonly encountered during research activities, it has not received as much attention as it deserves. Through a case study on a case study, which evolved from a methodology exercise into a rare case study of a project crisis, we mobilize the notions of serendipitous events and serendipity patterns to demonstrate how chance was cultivated using sagacity within the serendipity equation. Thereby, we contribute to a better understanding of the process of discovery through serendipitous creativity, especially in the dynamic and volatile project management research field where tensions between planned and unplanned are multiple.

Evaluating the Case, Evaluating the Cost: Criteria for Constructing the Defense Strategy of Persons Suffering from Mental Illness

This article examines the challenges and problems faced by attorneys defending, in criminal courts, clients suffering from mental health problems, and who are generally socially and economically fragile. The analysis is based on 14 in-depth interviews with defense attorneys who practice criminal law at the Montreal Municipal Court. Through their descriptions, this article will explore how attorneys determine their strategies and the elements that contribute to their choices when they represent persons with mental health problems in court. Three factors appear determinant in this process: the assessment of the case (assessment of the clients wishes, assessment of the client), the evaluation of the costs and benefits from the clients perspective, and the evaluation of the costs and benefits from the lawyerss perspective. The central concept of best interest of the client is shown in the complex and multidimensional.

Development of a crisis in a project: a process perspective

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the development and outbreak of a crisis in a high-priority project within a large organization.,Single-case study using extreme case sampling, a type of purposeful sampling, because this case provides rich information on a rare research opportunity: a project crisis that emerged during the fieldwork. Research data are semi-structured interviews, observations, project and organization documentation, logbook, notes and memos.,The paper shows the relevance of notions from organizational crisis management to an internal crisis in a temporary setting. This allowed a deeper understanding of crisis development. The paper reveals the wealth of meaningful, transparent data that can be collected when a crisis emerges. It highlights the high potential of project crises to reveal parent organizations’ dysfunctions. Indeed, findings suggest that the parent organization’s usual project management practices greatly contributed to the crisis affecting this project, which was unusually large and complex.,The main potential limitation relates to transferability. However, a single-case study is appropriate when it represents a rare phenomenon that is not easily accessible for researchers – a crisis outbreak.,Results can provide insights enabling practitioners to improve their understanding of the ambiguous, stressful situations created by a crisis.,The results show the relevance of notions from organizational crisis management to the development of a project crisis and demonstrate the potentially harmful impact of a parent organization’s “usual” practices, especially on “unusually” large and complex projects.

Project-Based Organizing: The Unexpected Trajectory of the Project to the Crisis

Being in the field when a crisis occurs cannot be planned. According to the literature, it is in those moments that the structure becomes more evident [18]. This case study provides an opportunity for such research, its particularity being that the crisis state develops following a sudden awareness about the project critical situation. This awareness is caused by the unexpected arrival of a new executive, forcing a rapid change in the analytical framework. This change, combined with radical actions taken by that individual, provokes swift changes in discourses followed by the outbreak of a crisis. Our results show how the development of unmanaged problems within the project, and the permanent organization, may gradually lead the project trajectory into a negative spin, until a crisis triggers. Furthermore, our reuse of some notions coming from the crisis management literature enables us to deeper our understanding of crises in projects.

Le Processus de «mise ailleurs» juridique: La Création de l'enfance dans les lois manitobaines, 1870–1924.

In this article the authors examine the phenomenon of creation of “childhood” and the role played by law, particularly by “puttng aside” young people with regard to their legal status. By carefully examining the evolution of Manitoba laws concerning youth between 1870 and 1924, one notices the gradual development of a specific legal space characterized by the necessity of adult control, residential fixation, moralization and interdiction for young people to be in certain public places. Putting this specific legal space Unto place was accomplished actualized by: 1) the development of new legal principles 2) the adoption of new legal designations to situations that require intervention, 3) the implementation of specific administrative structures underlying the application of this new youth legal system, 4) and the creation of a youth police. The impact of this creation is important: the transformation of the representation of youth; transformation of legal relations between children, parents and the State; global modification of the way of life of young people. But furthermore, the construction of “childhood” across the Manitoban legal system shows the transformation of necessities linked to the maintenance of a specific legal order.