Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a Canadian City, 1816-1970McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1995 - 323 pages Using Hamilton, Ontario, as his model, Weaver makes extensive use of newspaper accounts and police, court, and jail records in a revealing exploration of individual crime cases and overall trends in crime. Tracing the origin and evolution of courts, juries, police, and punishments, Weaver takes into account various social and cultural issues. For example, he shows how increasing centralization and professionalization of the criminal justice system and police have deprived communities of input, and how the legal system continues to be male dominated and biased against newcomers, strangers, and marginalized social groups. Often critical of the "state," Weaver paints a sympathetic view of police constables, who play an ambiguous role in the community while being saddled with an expanding array of onerous duties. Crimes, Constables, and Courts is history at its best - informative, entertaining, and accessible with a lively human element woven throughout. "Truly outstanding." Rod C. Macleod, Department of History, University of Alberta. |
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... Hamilton , 1859-1959 78 3.1 Moral Order Prosecutions per Constable , Hamilton , 1897-1959 114 3.2 Turnover in the Hamilton Police Force , Men Leaving and Hired , 1900-45 125 3.3 Annual Wages for Selected Ranks , 1872-1919 126 3.4 Growth ...
... Hamilton , 1859-1959 78 3.1 Moral Order Prosecutions per Constable , Hamilton , 1897-1959 114 3.2 Turnover in the Hamilton Police Force , Men Leaving and Hired , 1900-45 125 3.3 Annual Wages for Selected Ranks , 1872-1919 126 3.4 Growth ...
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... Hamilton Police Commission , c . 1962 : police chief Len Lawrence , county judge Allan Ambrose , magistrate Walter Tuchtie , Mayor Lloyd Jackson , clerk James Berry . The mural of the city market provided an appropriate backdrop ...
... Hamilton Police Commission , c . 1962 : police chief Len Lawrence , county judge Allan Ambrose , magistrate Walter Tuchtie , Mayor Lloyd Jackson , clerk James Berry . The mural of the city market provided an appropriate backdrop ...
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... police department figured in the complicated social issues faced by a new type of Canadian city , a city struggling to deal with order , health , welfare , and civic efficiency . From the early 1900s until the early 1980s , Hamilton had ...
... police department figured in the complicated social issues faced by a new type of Canadian city , a city struggling to deal with order , health , welfare , and civic efficiency . From the early 1900s until the early 1980s , Hamilton had ...
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... Hamilton civic authorities tagged visible minorities and southern and eastern European immigrants as prone to ... police department . The fact that the Hamilton po- lice force began to hire constables from European ethnic minorities only ...
... Hamilton civic authorities tagged visible minorities and southern and eastern European immigrants as prone to ... police department . The fact that the Hamilton po- lice force began to hire constables from European ethnic minorities only ...
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... police force often behaved as a vestige of the old regime . Even in the mid - twentieth century it had to suffer the ... Hamilton police force in the nineteenth cen- tury was a visible manifestation of the imperial tie . These sources of ...
... police force often behaved as a vestige of the old regime . Even in the mid - twentieth century it had to suffer the ... Hamilton police force in the nineteenth cen- tury was a visible manifestation of the imperial tie . These sources of ...
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