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
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| 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.
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Power, Place and Identity: Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec
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Montreal
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Montreal History Group
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1998
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11-35
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en
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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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