Most Assuredly Perpetual Motion: Police and Policing in Quebec City, 1838-58

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Most Assuredly Perpetual Motion: Police and Policing in Quebec City, 1838-58
Abstract
An examination of the evolution of the structure and function of Quebec City’s police force during the mid-nineteenth century. The force was originally conceived as an instrument of British authority. It was later remodeled, but the structure of Quebec society and the limitations of municipal power insured that the police force was more concerned with routine service functions than with social control. The author argues that the social conditions of the city played a larger role in shaping the police force than the theories of police reformers. Irish Quebecers made up a large proportion of the city's police force.
Publication
Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine
Volume
Vol. 19
Issue
no. 2
Pages
100-112
Date
October 1993
Language
en
URL
Citation
McCulloch, Michael. “Most Assuredly Perpetual Motion: Police and Policing in Quebec City, 1838-58.” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine Vol. 19, no. 2 (October 1993): 100–112. http://www.erudit.org/revue/uhr/1990/v19/n2/1017678ar.pdf.
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