Todd Gordon
Todd Gordon is a social justice activist who completed his Ph.D. in political
science at York University. His articles have appeared in Studies in Political
Economy, Canadian Review of Social Policy and Capital and Class. He is also an editor of New Socialist magazine.
Books by Todd Gordon
Cops, Crime and Capitalism
The Law and Order Agenda in Canada
Todd Gordon
Framed within a Marxist class analysis that highlights the way in which state power and capitalist social relations are racialized and gendered, Gordon’s study locates law and order policing as a central moment of capitalist state power. He argues that, as with policing historically, crime-fighting is not the principal aim of contemporary law and order policing—rather the aim is the production of a new social order based on the severely diminished expectations of working people. Crime… (more information)