PART I: DEVELOPING ISSUES IN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Chapter 1: Administering Justice without the State: A Study of the Private Justice System of the Hudson’s Bay Company to 1800
Russel Smandych and Rick Linden
Chapter 2: Criminal Boundaries: The Frontier and the Contours of Upper Canadian Justice, 1792-1840
David Murray
Chapter 3: The Mounties as Vigilantes: Perceptions of Community and the Transformation of Law in the Yukon, 1885-1897
Thomas Stone
Chapter 4: Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America
Brian D. Palmer
Chapter 5: Railing, Tattling, and General Rumour: Gossip, Gender, and Church Regulation in Upper Canada
Lynne Marks
PART II: A WORKING CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Chapter 6: Homicide in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815
Allyson N. May and Jim Phillips
Chapter 7: The Shining Sixpence: Women’s Worth in Canadian Law at the End of the Victoria Era
Constance Backhouse
Chapter 8: Gender and Criminal Court Outcomes: An Historical Analysis
Helen Boritch
Chapter 9: The Voluntary Delinquent: Parents, Daughters, and the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents’ Court in 1918
Tamara Myers
Chapter 10: Governing Mentalities: The Deportation of “Insane” and “Feebleminded” Immigrants out of British Columbia from Confederation to World War II
Robert Menzies
Chapter 11: Crime and the Changing Forms of Class Control: Policing Public Order in “Toronto the Good,” 1859-1955
Helen Boritch and John Hagan
PART III: POLICING ETHNICITY
Chapter 12: Spectacular Justice: The Circus on Trial, and the Trial as Circus, Picton, 1903
Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo
Chapter 13: “Gentlemen, This Is No Ordinary Trial”: Sexual Narratives in the Trial of the Reverend Corbett, Red River, 1863
Erica Smith
Chapter 14: The Relocation Phenomenon and the Africville Study
Donald H. Clairmont and William Magill
Chapter 15: Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920-1960
Joan Sangster
Chapter 16: Creating “Slaves of Satan” or “New Canadians”? The Law, Education, and the Socialization of Doukhobor Children, 1911-1935
John McLaren
PART IV: REGULATING GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Chapter 17: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925: Introduction
Mariana Valverde
Chapter 18: Defining Sexual Promiscuity: “Race,” Gender, and Class in the Operation of Ontario’s Female Refugees Act, 1930-1960
Joan Sangster
Chapter 19: “Horrible Temptations”: Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935
Steven Maynard
Chapter 20: Mother Knows Best: The Development of Separate Institutions for Women
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Chapter 21: “Character Weaknesses” and “Fruit Machines”: Towards an Analysis of the Anti-Homosexual Security Campaign in the Canadian Civil Service, 1959-1964
Gary Kinsman
PART V: MORAL REGULATION OF PERSONAL BEHAVIOUR
Chapter 22: Chasing the Social Evil: Moral Fervour and the Evolution of Canada’s Prostitution Laws, 1867-1917
John P.S. McLaren
Chapter 23: The First Century: The History of Non-Medical Opiate Use and Control Policies in Canada, 1870-1970
Robert R. Solomon and Melvyn Green
Chapter 24: Regeneration Rejected: Policing Canada’s War on Liquor, 1890-1930
Greg Marquis
