Crime and Deviance in Canada

Chris McCormick is Chair of the Criminology Department at St. Thomas University. He is an author and editor of books on crime and the media and corporate crime. As a newspaper columnist, he writes extensively on crime and criminal justice issues.Len Green is Lecturer in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at St. Thomas University. He has a Masters in Criminology from the University of Toronto.

This collection includes the most current issues in the history of crime and deviance in Canada. The scope of this book goes beyond traditional studies of the history of crime to include important aspects of deviance, moral regulation and relations of power in Canadian society. It challenges students to consider the historical relationships between criminal justice practices and gender, sexuality, class, and race inequities in Canadian society."" - Paula Maurutto, University of Toronto

• Part I: Developing Issues In Crime And PunishmentChapter 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 LindenChapter 2: Criminal Boundaries: The Frontier and the Contours of Upper Canadian Justice, 1792-1840, David MurrayChapter 3: The Mounties as Vigilantes: Perceptions of Community and the Transformation of Law in the Yukon, 1885-1897, Thomas StoneChapter 4: Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America, Brian D. PalmerChapter 5: Railing, Tattling, and General Rumour: Gossip, Gender, and Church Regulation in Upper Canada, Lynne MarksPart II: A Working Criminal Justice SystemChapter 6: Homicide in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815, Allyson N. May and Jim PhillipsChapter 7: The Shining Sixpence: Women's Worth in Canadian Law at the End of the Victoria Era, Constance BackhouseChapter 8: Gender and Criminal Court Outcomes: An Historical Analysis, Helen BoritchChapter 9: The Voluntary Delinquent: Parents, Daughters, and the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents' Court in 1918, Tamara MyersChapter 10: Governing Mentalities: The Deportation of ""Insane"" and ""Feebleminded"" Immigrants out of British Columbia from Confederation to World War II, Robert MenziesChapter 11: Crime and the Changing Forms of Class Control: Policing Public Order in ""Toronto the Good,"" 1859-1955, Helen Boritch and John HaganPart III: Policing EthnicityChapter 12: Spectacular Justice: The Circus on Trial, and the Trial as Circus, Picton, 1903, Carolyn Strange and Tina LooChapter 13: ""Gentlemen, This Is No Ordinary Trial"": Sexual Narratives in the Trial of the Reverend Corbett, Red River, 1863, Erica SmithChapter 14: The Relocation Phenomenon and the Africville Study, Donald H. Clairmont and William MagillChapter 15: Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920-1960, Joan SangsterChapter 16: Creating ""Slaves of Satan"" or ""New Canadians""? The Law, Education, and the Socialization of Doukhobor Children, 1911-1935, John McLarenPart IV: Regulating Gender And SexualityChapter 17: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925: Introduction, Mariana ValverdeChapter 18: Defining Sexual Promiscuity: ""Race,"" Gender, and Class in the Operation of Ontario's Female Refugees Act, 1930-1960, Joan SangsterChapter 19: ""Horrible Temptations"": Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935, Steven MaynardChapter 20: Mother Knows Best: The Development of Separate Institutions for Women , Kelly Hannah-MoffatChapter 21: ""Character Weaknesses"" and ""Fruit Machines"": Towards an Analysis of the Anti-Homosexual Security Campaign in the Canadian Civil Service, 1959-1964, Gary KinsmanPart V: Moral Regulation Of Personal BehaviourChapter 22: Chasing the Social Evil: Moral Fervour and the Evolution of Canada's Prostitution Laws, 1867-1917, John P.S. McLarenChapter 23: The First Century: The History of Non-Medical Opiate Use and Control Policies in Canada,  1870-1970, Robert R. Solomon and Melvyn GreenChapter 24: Regeneration Rejected: Policing Canada's War on Liquor, 1890-1930, Greg Marquis