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Title Essays in the history of Canadian law. Volume 5, Crime and criminal justice / edited by Jim Phillips, Tina Loo and Susan Lewthwaite
Published Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] : Published for the Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [1994]
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 583 pages)
Contents Native peoples and the criminal law -- Women, crime and criminal justice -- Criminal justice institutions and state authority -- Canadian prisons in the nineteenth century
Summary This fifth volume in the distinguished series on the history of Canadian 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Law -- Canada -- History
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Law
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Phillips, Jim, 1954- editor.
Loo, Tina, 1962- editor.
Lewthwaite, Susan, editor.
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, issuing body.
ISBN 9781442627857
1442627859
Other Titles Crime and criminal justice