City of Order
Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35
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Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debated adopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing - modernity was corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems on their fair city. In this context, citizens, policy makers, and officials turned to the criminal justice system to create a bulwark against further social dislocation. Officials modernized the city's machinery of order - courts, prisons, and the police force - and placed greater emphasis on crime control, while residents supported tough-on-crime measures and attached little importance t...
Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debated adopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing - modernity was corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems on their fair city. In this context, citizens, policy makers, and officials turned to the criminal justice system to create a bulwark against further social dislocation. Officials modernized the city's machinery of order - courts, prisons, and the police force - and placed greater emphasis on crime control, while residents supported tough-on-crime measures and attached little importance to rehabilitation. These initiatives gave birth to a constructed vision of a criminal class that singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female and juvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest for order. Michael Boudreau's in-depth study of crime and culture in interwar Halifax, the first of its kind, shows how tough-on-crime measures can compound, rather than resolve, social inequalities and dislocations.
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