About the Book
This unique and timely reader brings together twenty-four of the very best and most controversial readings on the history of crime, deviance, and criminal justice in Canada. This text is ideal for use in courses on introductory criminology, crime and deviance, or the Canadian justice system, particularly those with an historical component.
The theme of power relations is a very strong, unifying element—that is, relations of gender, social class, ethnicity, and age. Through such topics as prostitution, prohibition, youth courts, and the regulation of sexuality, we can trace these relations of power and how they link to the definition of crime in society.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Developing Issues In Crime And Punishment
Chapter 1: Administering Justice without the State: A Study of the Private Justice System of the Hudson's Bay Company to 1800, Russel Smandych and Rick Linden
Chapter 2: Criminal Boundaries: The Frontier and the Contours of Upper Canadian Justice, 1792-1840, David Murray
Chapter 3: The Mounties as Vigilantes: Perceptions of Community and the Transformation of Law in the Yukon, 1885-1897, Thomas Stone
Chapter 4: Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America, Brian D. Palmer
Chapter 5: Railing, Tattling, and General Rumour: Gossip, Gender, and Church Regulation in Upper Canada, Lynne Marks
Part II: A Working Criminal Justice System
Chapter 6: Homicide in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815, Allyson N. May and Jim Phillips
Chapter 7: The Shining Sixpence: Women's Worth in Canadian Law at the End of the Victoria Era, Constance Backhouse
Chapter 8: Gender and Criminal Court Outcomes: An Historical Analysis, Helen Boritch
Chapter 9: The Voluntary Delinquent: Parents, Daughters, and the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents' Court in 1918, Tamara Myers
Chapter 10: Governing Mentalities: The Deportation of ""Insane"" and ""Feebleminded"" Immigrants out of British Columbia from Confederation to World War II, Robert Menzies
Chapter 11: Crime and the Changing Forms of Class Control: Policing Public Order in ""Toronto the Good,"" 1859-1955, Helen Boritch and John Hagan
Part III: Policing Ethnicity
Chapter 12: Spectacular Justice: The Circus on Trial, and the Trial as Circus, Picton, 1903, Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo
Chapter 13: ""Gentlemen, This Is No Ordinary Trial"": Sexual Narratives in the Trial of the Reverend Corbett, Red River, 1863, Erica Smith
Chapter 14: The Relocation Phenomenon and the Africville Study, Donald H. Clairmont and William Magill
Chapter 15: Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920-1960, Joan Sangster
Chapter 16: Creating ""Slaves of Satan"" or ""New Canadians""? The Law, Education, and the Socialization of Doukhobor Children, 1911-1935, John McLaren
Part IV: Regulating Gender And Sexuality
Chapter 17: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925: Introduction, Mariana Valverde
Chapter 18: Defining Sexual Promiscuity: ""Race,"" Gender, and Class in the Operation of Ontario's Female Refugees Act, 1930-1960, Joan Sangster
Chapter 19: ""Horrible Temptations"": Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935, Steven Maynard
Chapter 20: Mother Knows Best: The Development of Separate Institutions for Women , Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Chapter 21: ""Character Weaknesses"" and ""Fruit Machines"": Towards an Analysis of the Anti-Homosexual Security Campaign in the Canadian Civil Service, 1959-1964, Gary Kinsman
Part V: Moral Regulation Of Personal Behaviour
Chapter 22: Chasing the Social Evil: Moral Fervour and the Evolution of Canada's Prostitution Laws, 1867-1917, John P.S. McLaren
Chapter 23: The First Century: The History of Non-Medical Opiate Use and Control Policies in Canada, 1870-1970, Robert R. Solomon and Melvyn Green
Chapter 24: Regeneration Rejected: Policing Canada's War on Liquor, 1890-1930, Greg Marquis
