Book Review: Young Finds The Cracks In The Justice System

Many of us, especially in the queer communities, have at some point wondered about the role of criminal law in our everyday life. Does the law control us, or do we control and influence the law? Is it a mobilizing force that furthers our aims or is it damaging to the communities we belong to?

Alan N Young, an Osgoode Hall law professor, aims to answer some of these questions and offers a personal, controversial and satirical book that fundamentally challenges Canada's criminal justice system. He was the lawyer who unsuccessfully defended SM madame Terri-Jean Bedford against bawdy-house charges and who has advocated for medical marijuana users.

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