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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law (Law and Society) - Tapa blanda

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9780774808873: Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law (Law and Society)
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ISBN 10: 077480887X ISBN 13: 9780774808873
Editorial: University of British Columbia Press, 2003

Sinopsis

This book examines Canadian experiences of social control, moralregulation, and governmentality during the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Informed by the wealth of theoretical andhistorical writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, thecontributors explore diverse state, social, legal, and human encounterswith the regulation of lives in British Columbia and Canadian history.Incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcoholregulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and theseizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues,are examined in these nine original essays.

This collection will interest scholars, researchers, practitioners,and students of a wide range of contexts including law, history,sociology, criminology, women's studies, Native studies, socialwork, and political science.

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Acerca del autor

John McLaren is Lansdowne Professor of Law, Universityof Victoria. Robert Menzies and DorothyChunn are both professors of criminology at Simon FraserUniversity.

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Editorial
University of British Columbia Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
077480887X
ISBN 13 
9780774808873
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
320
Editor
Menzies Robert, Chunn Dorothy E.
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