Marie-Andrée Bertrand

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Marie-Andrée Bertrand , OQ (born June 21, 1925 in Montreal ; † March 6, 2011 ibid) was a French-Canadian criminologist , feminist and anti-prohibitionist activist.

Marie Andrée Bertrand (Onati 1997)

biography

Bertrand comes from an upper-class family of Franco-Canadian nationalists. She began her professional career “as a social worker for delinquent women, mostly prostitutes”. Graduated from the University of Montreal with a Masters in Criminology in 1963 . She then studied at the University of California at Berkeley , where she received a Ph.D. also in criminology. From 1967 to 1997 she was Professor of Criminology at the École de Criminologie at the University of Montreal. Even after her retirement , she continued to work in research and teaching until her death, including at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati .

Scientific work

From a scientific point of view, Bertrand has dealt intensively with three topics: drug policy , the treatment of women by the criminal justice system and generally with critical, feminist theory in the field of criminology and legal sociology . One of her main works is an international comparative study of women's crime (1979, 2003). Furthermore, a comparative study of women's prisons, with Germany being one of the eight countries examined (1998).

activities

Especially in the area of ​​drug policy, Bertrand went far beyond a mere academic preoccupation with its subject. From a young age, she was Vice-President of the Le Dain Commission, a commission of inquiry set up by the Canadian Ministry of Health in 1969, which dealt with the use of non-medical drugs and advocated the legalization of marijuana . Later she joined the International League of Anti-Prohibitionists founded by Marco Pannella , of which she was president for several years. One of her concerns was the abolition of prisons, a goal she described as “a necessary utopia”.

Publications (selection)

  • Self image and social representation of female offenders: a contribution to the study of women's image in some societies . Ann Arbor, Michigan 1974.
  • La femme et le crime. Montréal 1979.
  • The place and status of feminist criminology in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Finland. In: N. Rafter and F. Heidensohn (eds.): International Feminist Perspectives on Criminology - Engendering a Discipline. 1995, pp. 107-124.
  • A comparison of postmodern and radical feminist theories and strategies. In: Kriminologisches Journal , Vol. 27, 1995, pp. 276-285.
  • Women in Prisons: A Comparative Study. In: Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology , 1996, 1, 1, pp. 38-58
  • Prisons pour women. Montréal 1998.
  • Le Droit comme Instrument de Mondialisation. In: J. Feest (Ed.): Globalization and Legal Cultures. Onati 1999, pp. 113-139.
  • Incarceration as a gendering strategy . In: Canadian Journal of Law and Society , 1999, 14, 1, pp. 45–60 (special issue on gender, ethnicity, (hetero) sexuality and norms. Edited by Marie-Andrée Bertrand).
  • Les femmes et la criminalité. Montréal 2003.
  • Le reve d'une societé sans risques. In: Drogues, santé et societé. Volume 4, No. 2, December 2005, pp. 9-41.
  • Comparing women's prisons: epistemological and methodological issues. In: D. Nelken (Ed.) Contrasting Criminal Justice. Aldershot 2006, 117-135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Université de Montréal - Division de la gestion de documents et des archives. Retrieved September 16, 2018 (French).
  2. ^ Daniel Baril: Marie-Andrée Bertrand, Antiprohibitionniste. In: Forum, Université de Montreal, November 3, 1997, accessed March 10, 2011
  3. ^ Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (Chairman: Gerald Le Dain): Cannabis: a report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, Ottawa 1992
  4. ↑ Does Abolitionism Have a Future? Documentation of an Email Exchange among Abolitionists. ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2007, accessed March 10, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sozialwiss.uni-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Bertrand, Marie-Andrée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian criminologist, feminist and anti-prohibitionist activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2011
Place of death Montreal