Violent Crime in North America
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Violent Crime in North America

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Violent Crime in North America

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction Louis A. Knafla
  3. Chapter 1 State, Community, and Petty Justice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1815–67 Greg Marquis
  4. Chapter 2 Making “Docile Bodies”: Prison Science and Prisoner Resistance at the Minnesota Reformatory, 1889–1920 Alexander W. Pisciotta
  5. Chapter 3 Violent Crime on the Western Frontier: The Experience of the Idaho Territory, 1863–90 Robert G. Waite
  6. Chapter 4 The Wendigo Killings: The Legal Penetration of Canadian Law into the Spirit World of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians Sidney Harring
  7. Chapter 5 Sexual Assaults in Calgary, Alberta, between the Wars David Bright
  8. Chapter 6 Creating the Peace: Crime and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1930–50 Jonathan Swainger
  9. Chapter 7 Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty in the United States. A Selected Bibliography Dennis Wiechman
  10. Book Review Essay Genocide as Government through Murder: A Review of Recent Contributions By Augustine Brannigan and Kelly Hardwick
  11. Book Reviews Julius R. Ruff, Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500–1800 By Sara M. Butler
  12. Index
  13. About the Editor and Contributors