Essays in the History of Canadian Law : : Crime and Criminal Justice in Canadian History / / ed. by Susan Lewthwaite, Tina Loo, Jim Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Backhouse, Constance,; Baehre, Rainer,; Boritch, Helen,; Condor Berkovits, Joseph,; Dickinson, John A.,; Fecteau, Jean-Marie,; Foster, Hamar,; Lachance, André,; Lewthwaite, Susan,; Loo, Tina,; Oliver, Peter,; Phillips, Jim,; Romney, Paul,; Savoie, Sylvie,; Strange, Carolyn,
• HerausgeberIn: Lewthwaite, Susan,; Loo, Tina,; Phillips, Jim,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 --; Publications of the Osgoode Society
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442627857; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442627857
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Susan Lewthwaite, Tina Loo, Jim Phillips.

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.