Borderline Crime
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0127-3 (ISBN)
From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. Limited by the power of territorial sovereignty, officials were unable to simply retrieve fugitives and refugees from foreign territory.
Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada. For nearly a century, officials ranging from high court judges to local police officers embraced the ethos of transnational enforcement of criminal law. By focusing on common criminals, escaped slaves, and political refugees, Miller reveals a period of legal genesis where both formal and informal legal regimes were established across northern North America and around the world to extradite and abduct fugitives. Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law. This engrossing history will be of interest to legal, political, and intellectual historians alike.
Bradley Miller is an assistant professor in the Department History at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Keenleyside Chair in Canada and the World.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Sovereign Borders and Criminal Law in Northern North America
Chapter 2: The Everyday Challenge of Sovereignty
Chapter 3: The Low and High Law of Abduction in the Border Zone
Part II: Uncertainty, Amorphousness, and Non-Law
Chapter 4: International Law and Supranational Justice in Northern North America
Chapter 5: The Non-Law of Refugees in British North America
Part III: Law Formation in the Treaty Era
Chapter 6: Civilization on the Continent: Law Reform and Imperial Power
Chapter 7: Law Formation in the Common Law World
Chapter 8: Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.11.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0127-7 / 1487501277 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0127-3 / 9781487501273 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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