| City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35 Contributor(s): Boudreau, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774822058 ISBN-13: 9780774822053 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) - Law | Legal History |
| Series: Law and Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 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. |