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.
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