Public violence in Canada, 1867-1982 / Judy M. Torrance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torrance, Judy Margaret Curtis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Canada.

Violence.

Violence--Canada--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Judy Torrance introduces the concept of public violence to denote acts widely considered to be violent and of importance to society. Public violence differs from related concepts like political violence in explicitly recognizing that the subject matter is socially constructed.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Concept of Violence""; ""A Unified Concept of Violence?""; ""Public and Private Violence""; ""2 An Overview of Canadian Public Violence""; ""The Frontier""; ""Wartime""; ""Elections""; ""On the Job""; ""Ethnic and Religious Groups""; ""Other Violence""; ""3 Characteristics of Canadian Public Violence""; ""Typologies of Public Violence""; ""Classification and Analysis""; ""Cross-National Comparisons""; ""4 The Meaning of Violence""; ""Constructing the Social Reality of Violence""; ""Conflicting Perceptions of Violence""

""Social Bases of Conflicting Perceptions""""5 Culture and Ideology""; ""The Declining Legitimacy of Violence""; ""Cultures of Violence""; ""Canada: The Peaceable Kingdom""; ""Ideologies""; ""6 The Breakdown of Restraints Against Violence""; ""The Violent Crowd""; ""Anomic and Marginal Populations""; ""Indicators of Anomie""; ""Factors Producing Anomie""; ""7 The Growth of Discontent""; ""The Discontents Associated with Violence""; ""The Exacerbation of Discontent""; ""Discontent in Canada""; ""Violent Canadians and their Discontents""; ""8 Solidarity Theories""; ""Mobilization""

""Types of Groups""""Maintaining Cohesion""; ""Leaders and Followers""; ""Organizational Structure, Success, and Violence""; ""A Participant's Account of the On to Ottawa Trek""; ""9 The Role of the Government""; ""Governments and Violence""; ""Conciliation versus Coercion""; ""The Costs of Coercion""; ""The Legal Framework""; ""The Effectiveness of Governmental Violence""; ""Changing Levels of Government and Dissident Violence""; ""10 Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""

""O""""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-85117-9

9786612851179

0-7735-6179-X

OCLC:

1331426905