Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Wendy Chan is Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Her research addresses issues of gender, race and class differences in criminal justice and welfare systems. She is the author/co-author of four books, including Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty (2007). See Wendy Chan.
The governance and perception of welfare in Canada has inextricably linked poverty, welfare and crime: to be poor is...