Lansdowne Lecture - Dr. Laureen Snider

Date:  Wednesday, March 6th, 2019, 6:30pm

Location: David Turpin Building, Room A120

Laureen Snider is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She has written extensively on corporate crime, crimes of the powerful, surveillance/technology, punishment and the criminalization of women. Her most recent book is About Canada: Corporate Crime (Fernwood, 2015) and 2 edited books: Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, crime and deviance (with S. Bittle, S. Tombs and D. Whyte); and The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: Towards a Political Economy of Surveillance, 2013 (with K. Ball). She also co-edited (with Steve Bittle and Dean Curran) a Special Issue of Critical Criminology titled Crimes of the Powerful: The Canadian Context (26, 4, 2018).  Recent articles and book chapters include “Enabling Exploitation: Law in the Gig Economy”, Critical Criminology V26, 4: 563-77; Interrogating the Algorithm: Debt, Derivatives and the Social Reconstruction of Stock Market Trading, Critical Sociology, February 2014; “Law, Regulation and Safety Crime: Exploring the Boundaries of Criminalizing Powerful Actors”, (with Steve Bittle), Canadian Journal of Law & Society, June 2015. Forthcoming publications include, “How Employers Steal from Employees: The Untold Story” (with Steve Bittle). Social Justice: A journal of crime, conflict, and world order; and  “How do I Discipline Thee: Let me Count the Ways: Tightening the Screws on the 99%” in J. Fudge and E. Tucker, eds. “ Law with Class. In the area of surveillance, her most recent publications are the aforementioned The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: Towards a Political Economy of Surveillance, 2013 and a chapter titled “The “Great Unwatched” and the “Lightly Touched”*: Surveillance and Stock Market Fraud” (with Adam Molnar) (Pp122-38).