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- Title
The politics of incarceration: Manitoba, 1918-1939.
- Authors
Kellough, D. G.; Brickey, S. L.; Greenaway, W. K.
- Abstract
Traditional criminological theories regard capture and punishment as a more or less direct response to criminality. Conflict theories of social control suggest that political and economic conditions rather than crime per scare principal factors influencing state control efforts. Using jail records as the basis for investigation, this study looks at variations in patterns of incarceration in the Eastern Judicial District of Manitoba during the period 1918 to 1939. Data give some qualified support to the proposition that the law is a tool in the hands of ruling elites used to pursue repressive ends in times when the social order may appear to be in greatest jeopardy.
- Subjects
SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; ECONOMIC sectors; JUSTICE administration; CRIMINAL justice system; SOCIAL conflict; SOCIAL control
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1980, Vol 5, Issue 3, p253
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340177