The Biases of Ancien Régime Justice: The People and the Justices of the Peace in the District of Montreal, 1785-1830

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The Biases of Ancien Régime Justice: The People and the Justices of the Peace in the District of Montreal, 1785-1830
Abstract
A quantitative overview of four social factors that shaped the criminal justice system in the district of Montreal (the western half of Lower Canada) at the turn of the nineteenth century. The author concludes that the four factors were: geography, ethnicity, class and gender.
Book Title
Power, Place and Identity: Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec
Place
Montreal
Publisher
Montreal History Group
Date
1998
Pages
11-35
Language
en
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Citation
Fyson, Donald. “The Biases of Ancien Régime Justice: The People and the Justices of the Peace in the District of Montreal, 1785-1830.” In Power, Place and Identity: Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec, edited by Tamara Myers, Kate Boyer, and Steven Watt, 11–35. Montreal: Montreal History Group, 1998. http://web.archive.org/web/20041107084908/http://www.ghm-mhg.mcgill.ca/publications/ppi/fyson.html.
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