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This article describes the management of process safety in a French industrial site of a US transnational chemical company. The actors of this French subsidiary of an US group are subject to several regulations and standards at national level, but also at a supra national level, especially European. They must implement them in a particular socio-technical context that requires adaptations. These adjustments are often the subject of various negotiations between the actors of the factory under consideration, with the actors of the group (corporate) and the national control authorities. These actors have indeed to deal with the process safety management regulation developed in the US at the federal level and translated into production and safety standards (procedures, tools, etc.) to regulate process safety in an increasingly homogeneous manner in the various sites around the world. It is therefore an empirical presentation of legal pluralism that this text invites.

Keywords: Sécurité industrielle, Process safety, Internormativité, Legal pluralism, Ajustements, Adjustments, Transformations, Transformations

Since the 1950s, the place of food in the budget of Quebec households has been continuously reduced, in competition with other budget items. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting inflation have changed the situation, especially for the most precarious. To apprehend the household food budget, two approaches are traditionally used. The first assesses what households spend on average, based on basic food items. The second calculates what a healthy diet should cost. These two approaches are useful, but they ignore the situation of the poorest households, as well as tastes and food cultures. This article aims to present the reflection and the original results of an exploratory survey carried out in the community environment of the metropolitan region of Montreal. What we will call the decent food budget is a new indicator for understanding the cost of a diet that is more in line with tastes and food cultures. This work aims to pave the way to new demands for food in low-income households.

Keywords: Budget alimentaire, Food Budget, sécurité alimentaire, Food Security, bonne alimentation, Good nutrition, Market Basket Measure (MBM), panier de provision nutritif, panier de consommation (MPC), Nutritious Food Basket

Victimology, the study of the victim, emerged in the second half of the 20th century as a branch of criminology. Until then criminology was exclusively focused on crime and its perpetrators. But since most crimes are committed against a victim/target the study of the latter offered a holistic approach. It also offered the prospect of transforming the static criminological theories into dynamic theories incorporating the interactions between victim and victimizer and the situational dynamics in confrontational victimizations. The beginnings of Victimology were purely theoretical focusing on the victims of specific crimes, their role and their eventual contribution to the genesis of the crime.In the 1970's the micro approach that characterized early Victimology was eclipsed by a macro approach aimed at assessing the volume of victimization, particularly hidden and unreported victimization. Victimization surveys became quite popular and were carried out regionally, nationally and transnationally. They allowed researchers to collect a vast amount of data on crime victims and yielded some very interesting as well as some unexpected findings. The last decades of the 20th century witnessed a major transformation in Victimology. The Victimology of the act gave way to a Victimology of action. The ideological transformation of victimology from the study of the victim into the art of helping victims, the over-identification with crime victims, and the missionary zeal with which the 'interests' of those victims are defended and pursued are quite manifest in victimology conferences and symposia.The missionary zeal exhibited by many victimologists on behalf and in the interest of crime victims is fraught with danger. First, it is jeopardizing the quality of scholarship and the scholarly stance of the discipline of victimology. As a result, victimology is increasingly being regarded as a humanitarian and ideological movement rather than a scientific discipline. Secondly, missionary zeal and partisan stance are moving criminal law and the criminal justice system into a punitive, retributive direction. There is also a third danger. Since the victim lobby has chosen to focus on traditional crimes rather than white-collar crime or acts of abuse of power, there has been a distinct shift of focus in research to the former type at the expense of the latter. Victims of white-collar crime, corporate crime and abuse of power have once again been relegated to the shadow. More serious still is yet another danger. In the diligent quest for victims' rights there seems to be a manifest or latent willingness to sacrifice offenders' rights. A false contest is thus created between the rights of both groups.So where is victimology heading ? Science and partisanship are incompatible. Once researchers take sides or become advocates they lose their neutrality, their objectivity and their credibility. This is a fundamental principle that should be seriously considered by those well-intentioned criminologists and victimologists who have adopted the cause of crime victims and who claim to speak on their behalf.The future of victimology will thus depend on its ability to return back to its original scientific mission, to shed its ideological mantle and to resume its role as a scholarly discipline and as an integral part of criminology. It is the need to separate research from action and science from activism that dictates that victimology be separated from victim policy. To restore its neutrality and to regain and maintain its scientific integrity victimology will have to detach itself from politics and ideology.

Keywords: Victimologie, victimologie activiste, victimisation, enquêtes de victimisation, victimisation confrontationnelle, victime catalyseuse, victime récidiviste, Victimology, activist victimology, victimization, victim surveys, confrontational victimization, victim precipitation, recidivist victim, Victimología, victimología activista, victimización, encuestas de victimización, victimización confrontacional, víctima catalizadora, víctima reincidente

Recent trends (new public management, service providers' collaboration, defined interest for beneficiaries' participation) are transforming public action. Innovative models, such as programs offering wraparound supports as part of youth employment policies in Canada are a paradigmatic example of these transformations. This article aims to unfold the implementation of these models in Quebec and Ontario. The results, based on interviews with managers of over a dozen youth service providers, shed light on both shared narratives, tensions and strategies on several policy aspects : employment as the ultimate objective, subordinating services ; youth workers playing a key role for program efficiency ; informal collaborative relationships having tremendous importance ; and youth participation being valued, without being fostered.

Keywords: Politiques, emploi, jeunes, collaboration, participation, Policies, employment, youth, collaboration, participation, Políticas, empleo, jóvenes, colaboración, participación

This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of three anthropological approaches (interpretive, experiential and explanatory) to requests for intercession in religions and healing rituals. First, an exploration of how Native North Americans have assimilated Roman Catholicism shows how in that process they have constituted Kateri Tekakwitha as the one who heals her devotees. Second, a discussion of the work of those who advocate an experiential approach to the study of rituals illustrates how they come to understand healing powers as they are initiated in religious healing traditions. Finally, the article examines the argument that in response to the cosmic indifference to their existential condition, humans create religious traditions and healing rituals to better confront uncertainty, suffering and death. Throughout the article these three approaches are discussed in the light of the concepts of ‘dispositif' (Foucault and Deleusze) and cognitive dissonance (Fetsinger).