People and place : historical influences on legal culture
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People and place : historical influences on legal culture
（Law and society series）
UBC Press, c2003
- pbk
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The collection represents a rich array of interdisciplinary expertise,with authors who are law professors, historians, sociologists andcriminologists. Their essays include studies into the lives of judgesand lawyers, rape victims, prostitutes, religious sect leaders, andcommon criminals. The geographic scope touches Canada, the UnitedStates and Australia. The essays explore how one individual, or smallself-identified groups, were able to make a difference in how law wasunderstood, applied, and interpreted. They also probe the degree towhich locale and location influenced legal culture history.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Louis Knafla and Canadian Legal History / JonathanSwainger
1) Introduction / Jonathan Swainger and ConstanceBackhouse
2) The King, the People, the Law ... and the Constitution: JusticeRobert Thorpe and the Roots of Irish Whig Ideology in Early UpperCanada / John McLaren
3) William Augustus Miles (1796-1851): Crime, Policing, and MoralEntrepreneurship in England and Australia / David Philips
4) Macleod at Law: A Judicial Biography of James FarquharsonMacleod, 1874-94 / Roderick G. Martin
5) "Don't You Bully Me ... Justice I Want If There IsJustice To Be Had": The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario1907 / Constance Backhouse
6) Murdered Women and Mythic Villains: The Criminal Case and theImaginary Criminal in the Canadian West, 1886-1930 / LesleyErickson
7) Boomtown Brothels in the Kootenays, 1895-1905 / Charleen P.Smith
8) "Imagine That! A Lady Going to an Office!": JanetKathleen Gilley / Joan Brockman and Dorothy E. Chunn
9) Incarcerating Holiness: Religious Enthusiasm and the Law inOregon, 1904 / Jim Phillips, Kelly Deluca, and RosemaryGartner
10) Police Culture in British Columbia and "Ordinary Duty"in the Peace River Country, 1910-39 / Jonathan Swainger
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