1. Editor's introduction

   • Danielle Laberge

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 5

2. What's real in realism? What's construction in constructionism? The case of criminology

   • Alvaro P. Pires
   • Fernando Acosta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 6 - 33

3. A few thoughts about the role of imprisonment in the political economy of penal reforms, 1770–1830

   • Jean-Marie Fecteau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 34 - 42

4. 1893–1993: FromLa Donna Delinquente to a postmodern deconstruction of the ‘Woman question’ in social control theory

   • Marie-Andrée Bertrand

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 57

5. Policing appearances

   • Jean-Paul Brodeur

   OriginalPaper Pages: 58 - 83

6. Beyond law and order: Motives in the mobilization of the penal system

   • Danielle Laberge
   • Pierre Landreville

   OriginalPaper Pages: 84 - 97

7. From social event to penal fact: the process of construction of the accusation

   • Marie-Marthe Cousineau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 98 - 112