Violent Crime in North America
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ISBN-13:
9780313310270
Veröffentl:
2003
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
30.12.2003
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Louis Knafla
Gewicht:
577 g
Format:
240x161x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
PrefaceIntroduction by Louis A. KnaflaState, Community, and Petty Justice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1815-67 by Greg MarquisMaking "Docile Bodies": Prison Science and Prisoner Resistance at the Minnesota Reformatory, 1889-1920 by Alexander W. PisciottaViolent Crime on the Western Frontier: The Experience of the Idaho Territory, 1863-90 by Robert G. WaiteThe Wendigo Killings: The Legal Penetration of Canadian Law into the Spirit World of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians by Sidney HarringSexual Assaults in Calgary, Alberta, between the Wars by David BrightCreating the Peace: Crime and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1930-50 by Jonathan SwaingerCapital Punishment and the Death Penalty in the United States. A Selected Bibliography by Dennis WiechmanBook Review EssayBook ReviewsIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors
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