People and place : historical influences on legal culture / edited by Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Backhouse, Constance, 1952-

Swainger, Jonathan Scott, 1962-

Series:

Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)

Law and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and law.

Law and geography.

Physical Description:

xix, 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2003]

Contents:

Prologue: Louis Knafla and Canadian Legal History / Jonathan Swainger vii

2 The King, the People, the Law ... and the Constitution: Justice Robert Thorpe and the Roots of Irish Whig Ideology in Early Upper Canada / John McLaren 11

3 William Augustus Miles (1796-1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia / David Philips 25

4 Macleod at Law: A Judicial Biography of James Farquharson Macleod, 1874-94 / Roderick G. Martin 37

5 "Don't You Bully Me ... Justice I Want If There Is Justice to Be Had": The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907 / Constance Backhouse 60

6 Murdered Women and Mythic Villains: The Criminal Case and the Imaginary Criminal in the Canadian West, 1886-1930 / Lesley Erickson 95

7 Boomtown Brothels in the Kootenays, 1895-1905 / Charleen P. Smith 120

8 "Imagine That! A Lady Going to an Office!": Janet Kathleen Gilley / Joan Brockman, Dorothy E. Chunn 153

9 Incarcerating Holiness: Religious Enthusiasm and the Law in Oregon, 1904 / Jim Phillips, Rosemary Gartner, Kelly DeLuca 170

10 Police Culture in British Columbia and "Ordinary Duty" in the Peace River Country, 1910-39 / Jonathan Swainger 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0774810327

OCLC:

53036870