This, the nineteenth volume of Criminal Justice History, features seven original essays on the history of violent crimes and punishments in North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including a major bibliography on capital punishment and the death penalty in the United States. The volume also contains a long book review essay on eleven books dealing with aspects of global terrorism, and reviews of eleven individual major works on the history and ideology of cirme and criminal justice that have appeared from the end of the 1990s. The introduction outlines the issues and themes…mehr
This, the nineteenth volume of Criminal Justice History, features seven original essays on the history of violent crimes and punishments in North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including a major bibliography on capital punishment and the death penalty in the United States. The volume also contains a long book review essay on eleven books dealing with aspects of global terrorism, and reviews of eleven individual major works on the history and ideology of cirme and criminal justice that have appeared from the end of the 1990s. The introduction outlines the issues and themes that are contained in the essays and reviews. As in the earlier volumes in this series, a comprehensive index identifies all subjects, names, and places in the volume.
LOUIS A. KNAFLA is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Calgary.
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Preface Introduction by Louis A. Knafla State, Community, and Petty Justice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1815-67 by Greg Marquis Making "Docile Bodies": Prison Science and Prisoner Resistance at the Minnesota Reformatory, 1889-1920 by Alexander W. Pisciotta Violent Crime on the Western Frontier: The Experience of the Idaho Territory, 1863-90 by Robert G. Waite The Wendigo Killings: The Legal Penetration of Canadian Law into the Spirit World of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians by Sidney Harring Sexual Assaults in Calgary, Alberta, between the Wars by David Bright Creating the Peace: Crime and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1930-50 by Jonathan Swainger Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty in the United States. A Selected Bibliography by Dennis Wiechman Book Review Essay Book Reviews Index About the Editor and Contributors
Preface Introduction by Louis A. Knafla State, Community, and Petty Justice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1815-67 by Greg Marquis Making "Docile Bodies": Prison Science and Prisoner Resistance at the Minnesota Reformatory, 1889-1920 by Alexander W. Pisciotta Violent Crime on the Western Frontier: The Experience of the Idaho Territory, 1863-90 by Robert G. Waite The Wendigo Killings: The Legal Penetration of Canadian Law into the Spirit World of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians by Sidney Harring Sexual Assaults in Calgary, Alberta, between the Wars by David Bright Creating the Peace: Crime and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1930-50 by Jonathan Swainger Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty in the United States. A Selected Bibliography by Dennis Wiechman Book Review Essay Book Reviews Index About the Editor and Contributors
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