Violent crime in North America / edited by Louis A. Knafla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knafla, Louis A., 1935-

Series:

Criminal justice history ; v. 19.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violent crimes--United States--History.

Violent crimes.

Violent crimes--Canada--History.

History.

Canada.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

Chapter 1 State, Community, and Petty Justice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1815-67 / Greg Marquis 1

Chapter 2 Making "Docile Bodies": Prison Science and Prisoner Resistance at the Minnesota Reformatory, 1889-1920 / Alexander W. Pisciotta 31

Chapter 3 Violent Crime on the Western Frontier: The Experience of the Idaho Territory, 1863-90 / Robert G. Waite 53

Chapter 4 The Wendigo Killings: The Legal Penetration of Canadian Law into the Spirit World of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians / Sidney Harring 75

Chapter 5 Sexual Assaults in Calgary, Alberta, between the Wars / David Bright 105

Chapter 6 Creating the Peace: Crime and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1930-50 / Jonathan Swainger 131

Chapter 7 Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty in the United States. A Selected Bibliography / Dennis Wiechman 155

Genocide as Government through Murder: A Review of Recent Contributions / Augustine Branningan, Kelly Hardwick

Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, New Afterword

Irving Louis Horowitz, Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power

Daniel J. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

James Turner Johnson, Morality and Contemporary Warfare

Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Chris Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process

Gary Jonathon Bass, Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crime Tribunals

Julius R. Ruff, Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 / Sara M. Butler

J.M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror / Jennine Hurl-Eamon

Peter Oliver, "Terror to Evil-Doers": Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / Greg Marquis

Clive Emsley, Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe / Simon Devereaux

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

Maurice A. Martin, Urban Policing in Canada: Anatomy of an Aging Craft

Philip Rawlings, Policing: A Short History

Rob C. Mawby, Policing Images: Policing, Communication and Legitimacy / Rod Martin

Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice: A Symposium in Honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz, ed. Anthony Bottoms and Michael Tonry / Mary Beth Emmerichs

John Phillip Reid, Patterns of Vengeance

Crosscultural Homicide in the North American Fur Trade / Jonathan Swainger.

Notes:

Series statement does not appear; publisher confirmed is v. 19 of Criminal justice history.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-194) and index.

ISBN:

0313310270

OCLC:

52214704