Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-194) and index.
Contents:
State, community, and petty justice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1815-67 / Greg Marquis -- Making "docile bodies": prison science and prisoner resistance at the Minnesota Reformatory, 1889-1920 / Alexander W. Pisciotta -- Violent crime on the western frontier: the experience of the Idaho territory, 1863-90 / Robert G. Waite -- The Wendigo killings: the legal penetration of Canadian law into the spirit world of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians / Sidney Harring -- Sexual assaults in Calgary, Alberta, between the wars / David Bright -- Creating the peace: crime and community identity in northeastern British Columbia, 1930-50 / Jonathan Swainger -- Capital punishment and the death penalty in the United States: a selected bibliography / Dennis Wiechman.
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