Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V: Crime and Criminal Justice

Published by University of Toronto Press 1994

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V

Crime and Criminal Justice

Edited by: Susan Lewthwaite , Tina Loo and Jim Phillips

Volume 5 in the series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

In the series Essays in the History of Canadian Law

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627857

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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.

Author / Editor information

Lewthwaite Susan :

Susan Lewthwaite teaches in the Division of Social Science, York University.

Loo Tina :

Tina Loo is Associate Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, and author of Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930.

Phillips Jim :

Jim Phillips is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword for reprint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
1. Introduction Susan Lewthwaite, Tina Loo and Jim Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Native Peoples and the Criminal Law
2. Native Sovereignty and French Justice in Early Canada John A. Dickinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. ‘The Queen’s Law is Better Than Yours’: International Homicide in Early British Columbia Hamar Foster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4. The Road from Bute Inlet: Crime and Colonial Identity in British Columbia Tina Loo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice
5. Violence, Marriage, and Family Honour: Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Marriage in New France André Lachance and Sylvie Savoie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
6. Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Early Halifax, 1750–1800 Jim Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
7. Patriarchy Modified: The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in York County, Ontario, 1880–1930 Carolyn Strange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
8. Prosecution of Abortions under Canadian Law, 1900–1950 Constance Backhouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Criminal Justice Institutions and State Authority
9. Between The Old Order and Modern Times: Poverty, Criminality, and Power in Quebec, 1791–1840 Jean-Marie Fecteau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
10. Rebel as Magistrate: William Lyon Mackenzie and His Enemies Paul Romney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
11. Violence, Law, and Community in Rural Upper Canada Susan Lewthwaite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
12. Crime and Punishment in Middlesex County, Ontario, 1871–1920 Helen Boritch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Canadian Prisons In The Nineteenth Century
13. Prison as Factory, Convict as Worker: A Study of the Mid-Victorian St John Penitentiary, 1841–1880 Rainer Baehre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
14. Prisoners for Profit: Convict Labour in the Ontario Central Prison, 1874-1915 Joseph Condor Berkovits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
15. ‘To Govern by Kindness’: The First Two Decades of the Mercer Reformatory for Women Peter Oliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	516
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
Publications of the Osgoode Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	584

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 584

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Published: December 15, 1994
ISBN: 9781442627857