Crime and Criminal Justice

Philip J. Sworden is an assistant professor in the Law and Justice
Department at Laurentian University.

This fifth volume in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series
offers readers critical, historical, and legal perspectives on such
related topics as Native peoples and the criminal law; women, crime, and
criminal justice; criminal justice institutions and state authority; and
the experience of both male and female inmates in Canadian prisons in
the 19th century.

The essays are by current leading scholars of history, sociology, and
law. Two noteworthy features about the volume: first, it gives readers a
rare opportunity to study Quebec scholarship on criminal justice themes;
second, it showcases the work of promising graduate students. The
absence of essays on the prairie provinces in an otherwise
geographically representative book is unfortunate. Nevertheless, the
volume meets a longstanding need for this kind of treatment of crime and
criminal justice history.