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AbstractChild pornography has existed for a long time but has become more easily available since the arrival of the Internet. This study aims at describing the characteristics of persons arrested for a crime of child pornography in the province of Québec between 1998 and 2004. The final sample consists of 192 persons. A cluster analysis performed on various variables provided us with three distinct groups : the explorer, the pervert (isolated or organized) and the polymorph. These groups are mainly distinct on age, the technology used and their criminal career. The polymorphs, though they are less numerous, have the most important history of conviction in sexual and non-sexual crimes. This latest group possesses also a varied life history of crime. Limitations of the results are discussed in the conclusion.

In this paper, we will start by presenting, in schematic form, the principal theses discussed in Michel Foucault's book. Then, we will devote the second part to a deeper understanding of the principal parts of the argumentation he develops and we will see how some of the themes he develops are of a more immediate interest to the criminologist, either because they converge with research in criminology or because they constitute a critique of it. Then, we will raise certain points that concern the method used by Foucault. This part of our argument will be more critical. Finally, we will conclude with a recall of Foucault's conclusions on the birth of criminology. We will then attempt to shed light on what criminological studies should retain of Michel Foucault's book, furthermore about what he has taught us, from a documentary point of view, of the birth of the prison.

Keywords: Michel Foucault, prison, système carcéral, pénalité, panoptisme, hard datas, soft datas, Michel Foucault, prison system, sentencing, panopticism, hard data, soft data, Michel Foucault, prisión, sistema penitenciario, penalidad, panoptismo, hard datas, soft datas

The online adult entertainment industry, as Darling (2014) showed, is a new case of low intellectual property regime, i.e. largely inefficient in preventing the massive copying of content. In this paper, we focus on alternative pornography and explore the mechanisms which contribute to the creation of pornographic content. We argue that user communities help content providers to absorb sunk costs associated with content production and distribution. Our main conclusion is that, although user communities cannot solve alone the incentive failure in online pornography, they complement and reinforce strategies which enable content producers to earn revenues from vulnerable copyrighted works.

Keywords: intellectual property rights, communities, low IP regime, online adult entertainment industry, alternative pornography, droits de propriété intellectuelle, communautés, régime de propriété intellectuel faible, industrie pour adulte en ligne, pornographie alternative, derechos de propiedad intelectual, comunidades, régimen de baja protección de la propiedad intelectual, industria del entretenimiento para adultos en línea, pornografía alternativa

The feminist creativity practical trainings « a World in Women Colours » set up by Belgian movement Vie Féminine offers women from the underclass to use a learning strategy meshing artistic techniques and thinking to analyse their daily inequalities and discriminations experienced personally or collectively. The authors focused on the emancipating impact of this method on the participants : how do those practical trainings in feminist creativity initiate a learning strategy which allows women to augment their abilities to become change-makers in their own lives, to enhance their involvement in society and become critical of the patriarchal society in order to set themselves free of socially imposed roles?

Keywords: Empowerment, créativité, art et féminisme, corps, espace public

Heterosexuality has been critiqued from feminist, lesbian and queer perspectives. The author aims to highlight the theoretical contributions of lesbians and queers to these debates, while noting the equivocal nature of this legacy for heterosexual women. These arguments are based on a critical discourse analysis of heterosexuality throughout the past 50 years. Divided in three sections, this paper offers: 1) a presentation of feminist lesbian, radical lesbian and queer critiques of heterosexuality; 2) a reflection on how heterosexual feminists have related to these critiques; and 3) a discussion regarding the usefulness of the proposed means to counter the negative effects of heterosexuality on women, and on the need for political action anchored in daily intimacy with the goal of creating more justice between partners.

Keywords: hétérosexualité, féministes hétérosexuelles, féminisme radical, féminisme lesbien, queer

AbstractAs a substate nationalist movement, Flemish nationalism has placed itself on the right of the political spectrum. This paper aims to explain this phenomenon by focusing on the formative moment of modern politics in Belgium. It is argued that alliances forged at the critical juncture of expansion of suffrage set Belgian politics on a particular path. The configuration of the political landscape during this moment was a turning point which shaped the future of the Flemish nationalist movement. The Catholic Church capitalised on the language division in order to combat the French-speaking anticlerical alliance of liberals and socialists ; subsequently, Flemish nationalism was internalised into the Catholic-secular cleavage of Belgian politics.

In this paper, the author looks back to « Wages for Housework » perspective, as thought by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James in The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community (1972). The author gives main outlines of some theoretical contributions of this thought, and presents some mobilizations who express it between 1972 and 1977. Her paper ends up with some actual issues concerning domestic and social reproduction work.

Keywords: féminismes (mouvements sociaux), travail non rémunéré, féminisme marxiste, reproduction sociale, mouvement du salaire au travail ménager

AbstractLouise Bogan joked that in a former life she had been “Felicia Hemans.” A lush Romantic and an austere Modernist, Hemans and Bogan appear polar opposites, yet these learned women poets shared a laureate poetics of Love and Fame. Hemans alludes directly to Petrarch's laureate triumph in “The Magic Glass”; in poetry and prose she portrays the difficult laureateships of Sappho and Tasso. Both Hemans and Bogan seemed laureates to their contemporaries and successors, yet both found laurels an ambiguous donnée, Bogan a “burden” among flowers, Hemans a fiery crown for the likes of “the Bride of the Greek Isle.” Petrarch gained his laurels in a formal triumph at Rome, a scene mandating abjuration and entailing defeat. His I trionfi enacted triumph and its reversals in a sequence mounting from Love to Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity. Bogan's laurels were similarly fugual, a “subtle wreath” combining “the line of feeling” of “sentimental” women's poetry with “the line of thought” in masculine Metaphysical Modernism. The poems of Bogan and Hemans that most vex critics – Bogan's life-denying “Henceforth, from the Mind,” Hemans's fame-abjuring “Corinne at the Capitol” – read differently as Petrarchan triumphs, that is, as abjurations signaling fresh triumphs to come.

AbstractThis article examines the printed media's coverage of child maltreatment and child protective services in the province of Quebec. Two questions are examined : What is the scope of this coverage? How are child maltreatment and child protective services presented? In order to do so, the content of the province's main daily newspapers has been analysed for a period of 24 months. This has led to the constitution of two datasets (N = 1211; N = 451). The first one has allowed us to identify trends in the number of articles published over time as well as statistical relationships between the number of articles published and specific news events. The second dataset was used for a more in-depth content analysis of news stories. Findings reveal that child maltreatment is the object, in Quebec as elsewhere, of an important amount of media coverage. This coverage has been found to over represent the least frequent types of child maltreatment and, overall, to provide a rather neutral assessment of child protective services.

Keywords: protection de l'enfance, maltraitance, média, services sociaux, child protective services, child maltreatment, media, social work