The death penalty and sex murder in Canadian history / Carolyn Strange.
2020
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Title
The death penalty and sex murder in Canadian history / Carolyn Strange.
Imprint
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Description
1 online resource.
Series
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
Formatted Contents Note
The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder
Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada's Century
Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability between the Wars
Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era
Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s
Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death Penalty.
Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada's Century
Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability between the Wars
Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era
Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s
Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death Penalty.
Summary
"From Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatric expertise in criminal trials, moral disgust and anger proved more potent in courtrooms, the public mind, and the hearts of the bureaucrats and politicians responsible for determining the outcome of capital cases. Outsiders of all types--drifters, the unemployed, the unconventional--were the first to fall within the radar of police who were pressured to catch culprits. Although the vast majority of convicted sex killers were white, Canada's racist notions of "the Indian mind" meant that Indigenous defendants faced the presumption of guilt. Black defendants were also subjected to discriminatory treatment, including near lynchings. Even prior to Steven Truscott's controversial death sentence for a sex murder in 1959, abolitionists expressed concern that prejudices and poverty created the prospect of wrongful convictions. Unique in the ways it reveals the emotional drivers of capital punishment in delivering inequitable outcomes, The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History provides a thorough overview of sex murder and the death penalty in Canada. It serves as an essential history and a richly documented cautionary tale for the present."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2020).
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Language
English
ISBN
9781487538101 electronic book
1487538103 electronic book
9781487538118 EPUB
1487538111 EPUB
9781487508371
1487538103 electronic book
9781487538118 EPUB
1487538111 EPUB
9781487508371
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