Livy A. Visano is sociology

Sociology

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 and criminology

Criminology

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 professor at York University

York University

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 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Canada. He is former Coordinator of Sociology Programme, School of Social Sciences (2003—2006; 2007-2008); Dean, Atkinson College, York University (July 1997- Dec 1, 1998) Chair, Department of Sociology, Atkinson College, York University (1996-7). He was an invited scholar to the Centre for Contemporary Culture (University of Jyvaskyla

University of Jyväskylä

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, Finland

Finland

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), and is currently an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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. He serves on the Boards of numerous community – based organizations. He has also served as consultant to federal, provincial and local governments and agencies.

Biography

Livy A. Visano received B.A. (Honours, in Social and Philosophical Studies), M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 (Criminology, Centre of Criminology), and Ph.D.

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 Sociology

Sociology

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, (Comprehensives: Criminology

Criminology

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; Urban Sociology

Urban sociology

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) from the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 in 1973, 1974, and 1986, respectively.

Affiliations

•Vice President (External), YUFA, York University

•Chair, University Safety Audit Committee, York University

York University

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•Vice Chair, Board of Regents, Huntington University

•Member, Board of Directors, OCUFA

•Advisor and Research Consultant, Vita Nova Foundation

•Editorial Board, International Journal of Comparative Social Studies, Brill Academic Publishers

•Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Comparative Sociology

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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 (Sage Publications

SAGE Publications

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)

•Member, International Research Linkages Panel (IRLP), Institute of Social Sciences, Academy of Social Sciences Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City

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Scholarship

He is the author of numerous books, and has published over 75 articles and book reviews. He has written extensively on delinquency and critical criminology

Critical criminology

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, critical legal hermeneutics, critical cultural theory, critical legal studies, cultural criminology

Cultural criminology

Cultural criminology is about placing crime and control in the context of its culture. Deviants not influenced by upbringing or social background but by their surroundings, culture i.e...

, youth, and ethnographies, penology

Penology

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, anti-racism and law, law and inequality. His books include:

Crime and Culture: refining the traditions

A book examines the underlying structures of political economy

Political economy

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 that produce current crime

Crime

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 ideologies. An overview and critique of classical perspectives on crime is followed by a discussion on the interrelationship of concepts that are basic to a critical cultural alternative--ideology

Ideology

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, hegemony

Hegemony

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, political economy and the state

State (polity)

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. The criminal practices of institutions are highlighted, emphasizing how they interact to effectively discipline, dominate and devalue certain elements of the population.

What do they know?”: Youth, crime and culture

In this book Visano takes an unconventional approach to understanding the phenomenon of youth crime. His analysis focuses on the impact of the dominant culture

Culture

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 on youth in terms of the often- overlooked issue of youth reflexivity—an interpretive processes through which youths organize their thoughts, feelings, and motives. In particular, he looks at the roles played by ideologies (such as modernity

Modernity

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 and liberalism

Liberalism

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) and institutions (such as the media

Mass media

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) in shaping youth identity. He also contends that youth crime actually serves the interests of capitalism

Capitalism

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.

Awards

•Nominated and Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce ,UK (2006- )

•Diploma Solenne, Accademia Internazionale di Pontzen di Lettere, Scienze ed Arti, Napoli, Italia 1998

•Lord Ruthven Assembly Award. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, London, UK 1997, Pontzen International Academy of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Naples, Italy.1997

•2004, Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University

•1996, John O'Neill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, Sociology, Arts, York University

Books

• Forthcoming Inequalities and the Criminal Justice System (with N. Couto) Toronto: APF Press,
• Forthcoming Crime and Thought, Toronto: APF Press,
• 2008. Cultural Contradictions of Delinquency: Youth Gambling in Canada (with Reza Barmaki) Toronto: APF Press
• 2006. What do they Know? Youth, Crime and Culture deSitter Toronto
• 2005. Law and Justice: A Critical Inquiry APF Press. Toronto
• 2002. Teaching Controversy (with L. Jakubowski), Fernwood Press. Halifax
• 1998. Crime and Culture Canadian Scholars’ Press.Toronto
• 1992. Canadian Penology: Advanced Perspectives and Research (with K.McCormick), Canadian Scholars’Press. Toronto.
• 1992. Understanding Policing (with K. McCormick) Canadian Scholars’ Press. Toronto.
• 1987. This Idle Trade. VitaSana Books, Concord, Ont.
• 1983. Deviant Designations: Crime, Law and Deviance in Canada (with T. Fleming), Butterworth. Toronto. (Reprinted 1987).

Selected Articles and Book Reviews

• 2007. “Adversarial Justice” in Gregg Barak (ed) Battleground: Criminal Justice Greenwood Publ .
• 2007. "The Social in Justice as Social Injustice”. M. Jacobs (ed) Justice, Health and Culture

Toronto: Thomson Nelson; reprinted in M. Jacobs (ed) Critical Readings In Health Toronto APF 2008.

• 2006. Jeff Ferrell et al. “Cultural Criminology Unleashed” , Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. July, 48(4).[Invited]
• 2006. “Preface” in M. Jacobs The Cappuccino Principle Toronto: deSitter Press.
• 2005. “Introduction: Law - Criminal Justice Nexus as the locus of injustice” (31pp) in Law and Justice:A Critical Inquiry APF Press. Toronto.
• 2005 “Professions and the Individual: The Impact of Culture in the Control of Careers”, The Professionalization of Work M. Jacobs and S. Bosanac (eds) 5pp Toronto: deSitter Press 23pp.
• 2005. "Class Enriching the Classroom: the 'radical' as rooted pedagogic strengths". In S. Muzzatti and V. Samarco (eds) Working Class Academics - reflections from the wrong side of the tracks Lanham Md. Roman and Littlefield.
• 2005. “The Social Organization of Internet Policing: From Pornography to Terrorism” In C. Orban and J. Hodgson (eds) Public Policing in the 21st Century: Comparative Issues and Dilemmas Criminal Justice Press (with Abbee Corb-Cinotti)
• 2004. “A Critique of the Cultures of Control: A Case Study of Cyber Rape”. In J. Hodgson and D. Kelly (eds) Sexual Violence NY Criminal Justice Press NY. 2002 reprinted from “A Critique of the Cultures of Control: A Case Study of Cyber Rape”. In J. Hodgson and D. Kelly (eds) Sexual Violence Praeger: Wesport Conn. (pp 51–71)
• 2004. “Degrees Of Freedom: The Applied Degree As The Pedagogy Of Praxis, Dialectics Of Discipline And The Primacy Of Partnerships” College Quarterly, Summer Volume 7 Number 3. (23pp) reprinted in Report of the Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on The Applied
• 2004 A Comparative Analysis of State_Sponsored Policy on Multiculturalism: ACross Cultural Study Athenian Policy Forum, Research Study Series , Research Report 133
• 2004 “Labelling and Symbolic Interaction Theories” In J. Mitchell Miller (ed) The Encyclopedia of Criminology (with D.Baker) NY: Routledge
• 2003. “The Role of Law in the Rule of Economics: a Critical Study of Ghana’s Labour Laws” (with N.Bastine) Journal of Asian and African Studies Volume 38, Issue 1.
• 2002. “The Impact of Whiteness on the Culture of Law: from theory to practice”. In C. Levine- Rasky (ed.) Working Through Whiteness SUNY Press. (pp 209–237).
• 2002. Law and the Culture of Capital: A Critical Perspective on Labour’s Right to Associate in Developing Societies” (with N.Bastine) Journal of Developing Societies.1 January 2002, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-22(22)
• 2001. “Community-Based Corrections”. In J. Winterdyk (ed.) Corrections in Canada: Social Reactions to Crime Toronto: Prentice-Hall (pp 296– 322).
• 2000. “Colour , Crime and Culture” Identity: A Journal of Inequality and Education v 1, no.1: 32-64. 1999. Karim Murji Policing Drugs Addictions: An International Research Journal (Winter). [Invited]
• 1999. Jeffrey Ian Ross, ed. "Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice. Justice Canadian Journal of Sociology (Online) November/ December [Invited].
• 1998. “Whores and Heroes: Prostituting the Self as a Mediated Commodity”. In S. McMahon (ed.) Women, Crime and Culture. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press. (pp 117–137).
• 1998. Culture and Control at the Crossroads: A Case Study of Local Squeegee Kids as Subversive Subjects” (with C. MacArthur and S. McMahon). In S. McMahon (ed.) Women, Crime and Culture Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press. (pp 231–252).
• 1996. “War on Drugs: From The Politics of Punishment to the Prospects of Peacekeeping” Addictions: An International Research Journal vol. 1 (Fall): 81-95.
• 1996. “Delinquency as Mediated Texts”. In G. O'Bireck Not a Kid Anymore: Youth, Deviance, Subcultures and Crime. Toronto: Nelson. (pp 72–106).
• 1995. “Community, Crime and Corrections: Re-shaping Control”. In I. Davies and P. Anisef (eds.) Different Canadas, Diverse Sociologies, Toronto: York University. (pp 222–239).
• 1994. “The Culture of Capital as Carceral: Conditions and Contradictions”. In K. McCormick (ed.) Carceral Contexts, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press. (pp 193–219)
• 1992. “Policing Understanding: Cultural Controls and Contesting Contexts”. (with K. McCormick), In K. McCormick and L. Visano (eds.)Understanding Policing. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’. (pp vii-xii).
• 1992. “Technology and Punishment: Generic Trends”. (with K. McCormick). In K. McCormick and L. Visano (eds.) Canadian Penology. Canadian Scholars’ Press.pp339–348.
• 1992. Clifford J. Janson and Anton J. Jansen, Sociological and Economic Change in the peasant society of Troina, Scholarly Research and Review Journal. [Invited]
• 1991. “Drugs in a Multicultural Context” Keynote Address, Report of Proceedings of Drug Awareness for Professionals Serving the Italo-Canadian Community Conference, B. Corbesi (ed.) Toronto (pp 1–3).
• 1990. “Crime As A Commodity: Police Use of Informers” Journal of Human Justice (Autumn), vol. 2 no. 1: 105-114.
• 1990. “The Socialization of Street Kids”, Sociological Studies of Child Development, vol. 3: 139-161.
• 1990. “The Impact of Age on Paid Sexual Encounters” Journal of Homosexuality vol. 20, no. 3/4 (Autumn): 207-236.
• 1988. “Generic and Generative Dimensions of Interactionism” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 29(3): 230-244.
• 1988. “Equality and Multiculturalism” (with R. Doyle) Journal of Law and Social Policy vol. 3 (Jan.): 21-35.
• 1987. “Inequalities Within Service Delivery Systems: A Case of Cultural Insensitivity” (with R. Doyle) Currents: Journal of Race Relations vol. 4 no. 3 (Summer): 3-5
• 1985. “Crime, Law and the State: The Linkage Problem”. In T. Fleming (ed.)The New Criminologies. Toronto: Oxford University Press. pp43–61. 1983. “Italo-Canadians and the Mafia: A Case of Misplaced Deviant Designations”. In T. Fleming and L. Visano (eds.) Deviant Designations. Toronto: Butterworth. (pp 71–98).
• 1980. “From Sociology of Deviance Toward A Deviant Controlology” Canadian Criminology Forum vol. 2, no.2 (Spring): 51-57.
• 1980. E. Schur's “Politics of Deviance” Canadian Criminology Forum vol. 3 (Fall): 79-82.

External links

• Livy A. Visano's faculty profile at York University http://www.yorku.ca/lavisano/