| Description |
1 online resource (603 pages) |
| Series |
Essays in the History of Canadian Law ; v.V |
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword for Reprint -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- NATIVE PEOPLES AND THE CRIMINAL LAW -- 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 -- WOMEN, CRIME, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 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 -- CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONS AND STATE AUTHORITY -- 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 -- CANADIAN PRISONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Publications of the Osgoode Society |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Canada -- History
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Law
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Loo, Tina
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Phillips, J
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| ISBN |
9781442627857 |
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1442627859 |
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