The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History / / Carolyn Strange.
From Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatric exp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder
- 2. Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada’s Century
- 3. Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability between the Wars
- 4. Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era
- 5. Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s
- 6. Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death Penalty
- Epilogue: The Problem of Sex Murder in the Shadow of Abolition
- Reflection on Sources and Methods
- Notes
- Index
- Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History