Includes bibliographical references.

Ch. 1. Administering justice without the state : a study of the private justice system of the Hudsonαs Bay Company to 1800 / Russell Smandych and Rick Linden -- Ch. 2. Criminal boundaries : the frontier and the contours of upper Canadian justice, 1792-1840 / David Murray -- Ch. 3. The mounties as vigilantes : perceptions of community and the transformation of law in the Yukon, 1885-1897 / Thomas Stone -- Ch. 4. Discordant music : charivaris and whitecapping in nineteenth-century North America / Brian D. Palmer -- Ch. 5. Railing, tattling, and general rumour : gossip, gender, and church regulation in upper Canada / Lynne Marks -- Ch. 6. Homicide in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815 / Allyson N. May and Jim Phillips -- Ch. 7. The shining sixpence : womenαs worth in Canadian law at the end of the Victoria era / Constance Backhouse -- Ch. 8. Gender and criminal court outcomes : an historical analysis / Helen Boritch -- Ch. 9. The voluntary delinquent : parents, daughters, and the montreal Juvenile delinquentsα court in 1918 / Tamara Myers -- Ch. 10. Governing mentalities : the deportation of "insane" and "feebleminded" immigrants out of British Columbia from confederation to World War II / Robert Menzies -- Ch. 11. Crime and the changing forms of class control : policing public order in "Toronto the good," 1859-1955 / Helen Boritch and John Hagan -- Ch. 12. Spectacular justice : the circus on trial, and the trial as circus, Picton, 1903 / Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo -- Ch. 13. "Gentlemen, this is no ordinary trial" : sexual narratives in the trial of the Reverend Corbett, Red River, 1863 / Erica Smith --

Ch. 14. The relocation phenomenon and the africville study / Donald H. Clairmont and Dennis William Magill -- Ch. 15. Criminalizing the colonized : Ontario native women confront the criminal justice system, 1920-1960 / Joan Sangster -- Ch. 16. Creating "Slaves of Satan" or "new Canadians"? The law, education, and the socialization of doukhobor children, 1911-1935 / John McLaren -- Ch. 17. Moral reform in English Canada, 1885-1925 : introduction / Mariana Valverde -- Ch. 18. Defining sexual promiscuity : "race," gender, and class in the operation of Ontarioαs female refuges act, 1930-60 / Joan Sangster -- Ch. 19. "Horrible temptations" : sex, men, and working-class male youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935 / Steven Maynard -- Ch. 20. Mother knows best : the development of separate institutions for women / Kelly Hannah-Moffat -- Ch. 21. "Character weaknesses" and "fruit machines" : towards an analysis of the anti-homosexual security campaign in the Canadian Civil Service, 1959-1964 / Gary Kinsman -- Ch. 22. Chasing the social evil : moral fervour and the evolution of Canadaαs prostitution laws, 1867-1917 / John P. S. McLaren -- Ch. 23. The first century : the history of non-medical opiate use and control policies in Canada, 1870-1970 / Robert R. Solomon and Melvyn Green -- Ch. 24. Regeneration rejected : policing Canadaαs War on liquor, 1890-1930 / Greg Marquis.