Michael Boudreau

City of Order

Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780774822053
• ISBN-10: 0774822058
• Artikelnr.: 37500661

Autorenporträt

Michael Boudreau is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Crime, the Rule of Law, and Society
1 A City of Order in a Time of Turmoil: The Socio-Economic Contours of
Interwar Halifax
2 The Machinery of Law and Order
3 The Social Perceptions of Crime and Criminals
4 "Miscreants" and "Desperadoes": Halifax's "Criminal Class"
5 Women, Crime, and the Law
6 The Ethnic Dimensions of Crime and Criminals
Conclusion: The Supremacy of Law and Order in Halifax
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index