Historical Reactions to Crime and Deviance

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Historical Reactions to Crime and Deviance

• Criminology 2253

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Why is history important to crim?

• We can study the evolution of policing in Canada,
  on the frontier, and in the city

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• Caption North West Mounted Police and
  Stampeders posing in front of their tent on the
  summit amid piles of gear waiting to be checked
  through.Date 1898 Photographer Anton Vogee
  Subject Headings Chilkoot Pass Summit - North
  West Mounted Police

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The corruption spreads until the brothel, saloon
and gambling hall are the real administration of
our cities.

• Early 20th C vice campaigns citizens committees,
  muckraking reporters, social activist clergy,
  crime commissions
• Police caught between moderates/extremists
• Vice not serious crime to police regulated by
  policy, source of income
• Gambling halls, blind pigs, disorderly houses,
  opium dens necessary to social, economic life

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We can also study the evolution of the law

• 1892 federal Criminal Code
• -- 1st definition of rape
• -- husband exemption clause
• by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract
  the wife has given up herself in this kind unto
  her husband, which she cannot retract
• Legislation of matrimonial unity

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1908 Juvenile Delinquents Act

• Child-saving movement advocated separate justice
  for juveniles based on welfare model
• --saw delinquency as result of poor parenting,
  economic and social disadvantage
• --parents shall be included in process
• --court operates under parens patriae
• custody and discipline of juvenile delinquent
  shall approximate that given by parents treated
  as misdirected, misguided child, needing aid,
  encouragement, help, assistance
• Delinquents seen not as criminals but misguided
  youths

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We can study justice outside the law

• Charivaris and whitecapping, a ritualized means
  of social control
• Adulterous relationships, spouse beaters,
  cuckolded husbands, unnatural marriages
• Gathering at offenders house, beating pans and
  drums, offender seized, sat on donkey, paraded
  through streets

There is a man in this place Has beat his
wife! Has beat his wife!! It is a very great
shame and disgrace To all who live in this
place. It is indeed upon my life!!
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and how the law might not embody justice