| City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35 Contributor(s): Boudreau, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 077482204X ISBN-13: 9780774822046 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $93.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History |
| Dewey: 364.971 |
| Series: Law and Society (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.32 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. To create a bulwark against further social dislocation, citizens, policy makers, and officials modernized the city's machinery of order - courts, prisons, and the police force - and placed greater emphasis on crime control. These tough-on-crime measures, Boudreau argues, did not resolve problems but rather singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female and juvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest for order. |