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Crime & Punishment is
global in its outlook on Canadian history. Today distant events in Colombia,
Russia, China, or the Middle-East, have direct impact on the nature of
policing in Canadian cities. In the 19th century, similar distant
events like the Potato Famine
in Ireland, the Paris Commune Uprising, the Opium Wars and Boxer Rebellion
in China, the US Civil War, effected policing in Canadian urban
centers. These upheavals in the age of sail and steam,
dramatically resonate in the surviving minutes of local municipal police
commission meetings, courtroom judgments and routine police department
memos from across 19th century Canada.
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