ISBN:
9781009334044
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 246 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
DDC:
345.71
Keywords:
c 1800 to c 1900
;
zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
;
Criminal law History
;
Police History
;
Amerikanische Geschichte
;
Colonialism & imperialism
;
Crime & criminology
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HISTORY / Canada / General
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History of the Americas
;
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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LAW / Legal History
;
Legal history
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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POL045000
;
Rechtsgeschichte
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
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Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik)
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Canada
;
Kanada
Abstract:
This critical socio-legal history probes pretrial accusations through which colonial criminal law forged social orders for settler-colonialism across western Canada, focusing on Alberta, 1874-1884. Following military intelligence, a Northwest Mounted Police force was established to compel Dominion law. That force began by deploying accusatory theatres to receive information about crimes, arrest suspects, and decide via preliminary examination who to send to trial. George Pavlich draws on exemplary performances of colonial accusation to show how police officers and justices of the peace translated local social lore into criminal law. These performances reflected intersecting powers of sovereignty, disciplinarily, and biopolitics; they held accused individuals legally culpable for crimes and obscured social upheavals that settlers brought. Reflecting on colonial legacies within today's vast and unequal criminalizing institutions, this book proposes that we seek new forms of accusation and legality, learning from Indigenous laws that tackle individual and collective responsibilities for societal disquiet
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Grammars of critique and colonial accusation; 2. Reconnaissance discourses for colonial law; 3. Sovereign spectacles and criminal accusation; 4. Justices of the peace at accusatory theatres; 5. Training police accusers; 6. Moulding accused individuals; 7. Biopolitics and colonial accusation; 8. Denouements and turned spades.
DOI:
10.1017/9781009334051
URL:
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