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April 22, 2010
Other criminal justice workers could be selling drugs
SFU criminologist Robert Gordon applauds the Vancouver Police firing and arrest of former constable Peter Hodson Wednesday for allegedly selling marijuana while on duty, but says drug trafficking could be widespread in the justice system. “It’s always important to send a message and ensure public confidence in the police,” says Gordon. “But there are probably more individuals working in the criminal justice system in the metro area who are involved with the illegal drug trade and organized crime. It is a highly lucrative industry and the probability of corruption is extremely high.”
Robert Gordon, 604.418.6640 (cell); rgordon@sfu.ca
Defining cosmopolitan citizenship
Toronto-based Iranian intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo and Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) founding president, Shelagh Day, will be among 10 presenters at a citizenship conference hosted by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities May 5-8 at Harbour Centre. The conference —Cosmopolis/Cosmopolitics: humanities and citizenship after neo-liberalism?— will investigate how the notion of citizenship has evolved from a nationalistic to a more cosmopolitan concept. Keynote speaker Jahanbegloo, a University of Toronto political scientist, writes and lectures about tolerance and difference, democracy and modernity, and the dynamics of Iranian intellectual life. Day, a Vancouver human-rights activist, received the Governor-General’s Award in 2008 for her work on behalf of the advancement of women in Canada.
This Vancouver campus public event is free but registration is required: www.sfu.ca/reserve and http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/55848256
Janelle Kidd, Institute for the Humanities, 778.782.5855; jkidd@sfu.ca
SFU criminologist Robert Gordon applauds the Vancouver Police firing and arrest of former constable Peter Hodson Wednesday for allegedly selling marijuana while on duty, but says drug trafficking could be widespread in the justice system. “It’s always important to send a message and ensure public confidence in the police,” says Gordon. “But there are probably more individuals working in the criminal justice system in the metro area who are involved with the illegal drug trade and organized crime. It is a highly lucrative industry and the probability of corruption is extremely high.”
Robert Gordon, 604.418.6640 (cell); rgordon@sfu.ca
Defining cosmopolitan citizenship
Toronto-based Iranian intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo and Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) founding president, Shelagh Day, will be among 10 presenters at a citizenship conference hosted by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities May 5-8 at Harbour Centre. The conference —Cosmopolis/Cosmopolitics: humanities and citizenship after neo-liberalism?— will investigate how the notion of citizenship has evolved from a nationalistic to a more cosmopolitan concept. Keynote speaker Jahanbegloo, a University of Toronto political scientist, writes and lectures about tolerance and difference, democracy and modernity, and the dynamics of Iranian intellectual life. Day, a Vancouver human-rights activist, received the Governor-General’s Award in 2008 for her work on behalf of the advancement of women in Canada.
This Vancouver campus public event is free but registration is required: www.sfu.ca/reserve and http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/55848256
Janelle Kidd, Institute for the Humanities, 778.782.5855; jkidd@sfu.ca