Susan C. Boyd

Susan Boyd, PhD, is Associate Professor in Studies in Policy and Practice and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria. She is the author of From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy (2004) and Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths (1999). She has published work in a number of scientific journals, and her academic background is augmented by her outreach work and community activism working with harm-reduction and anti-drugwar groups.

Books by Susan C. Boyd

With Child

With Child

Substance Use During Pregnancy, A Woman-Centred Approach

Edited by Susan C. Boyd, Lenora Marcellus

Drug use is among the behaviours that are associated with or a consequence of poverty. The contributors to this volume propose that those who provide services for pregnant drugusing women must recognize that care of women with social problems that affect pregnancy outcome should be approached in the same way as care for women with medical problems that have obstetric consequences. This book provides practitioners and researchers with valuable information about maternal drug use, best practices and… (more information)

Toxic Criminology

Toxic Criminology

Environment, Law and the State in Canada

Edited by Susan C. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

Critical research, writing and advocacy by legal academics and practitioners, NGOs, indigenous peoples and ecofeminists has existed on a global scale since the 1960s, but not until the 1990s did criminologists begin to examine environmental crime in a more concerted way. This late entrance by criminologist has much to do with who is involved in environmental crime—namely upper strata, mostly “white” men who run corporations and state agancies and the preception of environmental… (more information)

Raise Shit!

Raise Shit!

Social Action Saving Lives

Susan C. Boyd, Donald MacPherson, Bud Osborn

This book tells a story about community activism in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) that culmi-nated in a social justice movement to open the first official safe injection site. This story is unique: it is told from the point of view of drug users — those most affected by drug policy, political decisions and policing. It provides a montage of poetry, photos, early Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) meetings, journal entries from the Back Alley, the “unofficial&rdquo… (more information)

Abusing Power

Abusing Power

The Canadian Experience

Edited by Susan C. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn, Robert Menzies

Abusing Power: The Canadian Experience is a book about crime, law, power and social (in)justice. The contributors include academics, legal practitioners, journalists and social activists who have been studying and struggling for years against the abuse of power in myriad realms of Canadian life. This book represents the first systematic effort in this country to integrate a variety of topics related to power abuse into a single collection. Each essay has been chosen on the strength of its capacity… (more information)