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UNINA9910459743103321 |
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Titolo |
Essays in the history of Canadian law . Volume 5, : Crime and criminal justice / / edited by Jim Phillips, Tina Loo and Susan Lewthwaite |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1994 |
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©1994 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (603 p.) |
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Collana |
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
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Soggetti |
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Law - Canada - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword for reprint -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Native Sovereignty and French Justice in Early Canada -- 3. ‘The Queen’s Law is Better Than Yours’: International Homicide in Early British Columbia -- 4. The Road from Bute Inlet: Crime and Colonial Identity in British Columbia -- 5. Violence, Marriage, and Family Honour: Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Marriage in New France -- 6. Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Early Halifax, 1750–1800 -- 7. Patriarchy Modified: The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in York County, Ontario, 1880–1930 -- 8. Prosecution of Abortions under Canadian Law, 1900–1950 -- 9. Between The Old Order and Modern Times: Poverty, Criminality, and Power in Quebec, 1791–1840 -- 10. Rebel as Magistrate: William Lyon Mackenzie and His Enemies -- 11. Violence, Law, and Community in Rural Upper Canada -- 12. Crime and Punishment in Middlesex County, Ontario, 1871–1920 -- 13. Prison as Factory, Convict as Worker: A Study of the Mid-Victorian St John Penitentiary, 1841–1880 -- 14. Prisoners for Profit: Convict Labour in the Ontario Central Prison, 1874-1915 -- 15. ‘To Govern by Kindness’: The First Two Decades of the Mercer Reformatory for Women -- Index -- Publications of the Osgoode Society |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This fifth volume in the distinguished series on the history of Canadian |
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law turns to the important issues of crime and criminal justice. In examining crime and criminal law specifically, the volume contributes to the long-standing concern of Canadian historians with law, order, and authority.The volume covers criminal justice history at various times in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. It is a study which opens up greater vistas of understanding to all those interested in the interstices of law, crime, and punishment. |
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