Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada / essays by J.H. Baker ... [et al.] ; edited by Louis A. Knafla.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Baker, John H. (John Hamilton)

Knafla, Louis A., 1935-

Calgary Institute for the Humanities.

Conference Name:

Crime and Criminal Justice Workshop (1979 : Calgary, Alta.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law--Canada--Congresses.

Criminal law.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Canada--Congresses.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Criminal law--Europe--Congresses.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Europe--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Published for Calgary Institute for the Humanities by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe and North America? These and other questions were addressed at an international conference on crime and criminal justice at The University of Calgary attended by historians, professors of law, judges, and criminologists. The essays in Part I consider the evolution of criminal law doctrine, and those in Part II analyse the theory and measurement of crime in the past and at present. Parts III and IV examine the courts and prosecution, and Part V assesses the historical roots of the insanity defence and the theory and practice of punishment. The volume will be of interest, across national boundaries, to historians, sociologists, social workers, lawyers, and persons involved in the administration of justice as well as the general reader concerned about civil rights, social values, and justice. The eighteen contributors include F.H. Baker, J.M. Beattie, W.A. Calder, T.C. Curtis, D. Hay, H. Diederiks, A. Lachance, His Honour W.G. Morrow, A. Soman, and S. Verdun-Jones.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Aspects of the Criminal Law, Crime, Criminal Process and Punishment in Europe and Canada, 1500-1935

The Refinement of English Criminal Jurisprudence, 1500-1848

Criminal Jurisprudence in Ancien-Régime France: The Parlement of Paris in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Meanings of the Criminal Law in Quebec, 1764-1774

English Thinking About Crime, 1530-1620

Judicial Records and the Measurement of Crime in Eighteenth-Century England

The Measurement of Crime in Nineteenth-Century Canada; Some Methodological and Philosophical Problems

Women and Crime in Canada in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1712-1759

“Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity”: The Historical Roots of the Canadian Insanity Defence, 1843-1920

Patterns of Prairie Crime: Calgary, 1875-1939

Adapting Our Justice System to the Cultural Needs of Canada’s North

Punishment During the Ancien Régime: The Case of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

Convict Life in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries, 1867-1900

Theory and the History of Criminal Justice

A Philosophical Perspective on Historical Research Into Law

Also published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for The Calgary Institute for the Humanities

Notes:

Papers presented at the Crime and Criminal Justice Workshop, held at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, July 1979.

"Published for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities".

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781554581573

1554581575

OCLC:

243574863