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12%OFFRobert Menzies (Ed.) - Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law - 9780774808873 - V9780774808873
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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law

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Description for Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law Paperback. This collection explores the treatment of incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues. Editor(s): McLaren, Mr. John; Chunn, Dorothy E. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; LAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774808873
SKU
V9780774808873
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About Robert Menzies (Ed.)
John McLaren is Lansdowne Professor of Law, Universityof Victoria. Robert Menzies and DorothyChunn are both professors of criminology at Simon FraserUniversity.

Reviews for Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
... ably illustrates how thoughtful questions and the willingness to pose such queries will, more often than not, steer engaged inquiries in wonderfully creative, unexpected, and intriguing directions ... And thus, if we can safely take Regulating Lives as an indication of the work to follow, the new Law and Society series from UBC Press will be invaluable.
Jonathan ... Read more

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