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City of Order - Boudreau, Michael
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Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debatedadopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing: modernitywas corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems ontheir fair city. To create a bulwark against further socialdislocation, citizens, policy makers, and officials modernized thecity's machinery of order -- courts, prisons, and the policeforce -- and placed greater emphasis on crime control. Thesetough-on-crime measures, Boudreau argues, did not resolve problems butrather singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debatedadopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing: modernitywas corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems ontheir fair city. To create a bulwark against further socialdislocation, citizens, policy makers, and officials modernized thecity's machinery of order -- courts, prisons, and the policeforce -- and placed greater emphasis on crime control. Thesetough-on-crime measures, Boudreau argues, did not resolve problems butrather singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female andjuvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest fororder.
Autorenporträt
Michael Boudreau is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University.