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Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Citizenship In Theory And History -- Chapter 1. Rethinking The Citizen In Canadian Social History / Menzies, Robert / Adamoski, Robert / Chunn, Dorothy E. -- Chapter 2. Three Stories Of Canadian Citizenship / Brodie, Janine -- Part II. Constituting The Canadian Citizen -- Chapter 3. "The Citizenship Debates": The 1885 Franchise Act / Strong-Boag, Veronica -- Chapter 4. From The Nation To The Citizen: Quebec Historical Writing And The Shaping Of Identity / Rudin, Ronald -- Chapter 5. Indigenous Citizenship And History In Canada: Between Denial And Imposition / Denis, Claude -- Part III. Domesticity, Industry And Nationhood -- Chapter 6. Scaffolding Citizenship: Housing Reform And Nation Formation In Canada, 1900-1950 / Purdy, Sean -- Chapter 7. Unemployment And The New Industrial Citizenship: A Review Of The Ontario Unemployment Commission, 1916 / Stephen, Jennifer -- Chapter 8. Indispensable But Not A Citizen: The Housewife In The Great Depression / Baillargeon, Denyse -- Chapter 9. Time, Swimming Pools, And Citizenship: The Emergence Of Leisure Rights In Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada / Tillotson, Shirley -- Part IV. Pedagogies Of Belonging And Exclusion -- Chapter 10. "The Good Citizen": Masculinity And Citizenship At Frontier College, 1899-1933 / McLean, Lorna R. -- Chapter 11. Education For Motherhood: Creating Modern Mothers And Model Citizens / Arnup, Katherine -- Chapter 12. Constructing Normal Citizens: Sex Advice For Postwar Teens / Adams, Mary Louise -- Chapter 13. Black Nova Scotian Women's Schooling And Citizenship: An Education Of Violence / Moreau, Bernice -- Part V. The Boundaries Of Citizenship -- Chapter 14. The Child - The Citizen - The Nation: The Rhetoric And Experience Of Wardship In Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia / Adamoski, Robert -- Chapter 15. Creating Social And Moral Citizens: Defining And Treating Delinquent Boys And Girls In English Canada, 1920-65 / Sangster, Joan -- Chapter 16. Sex And Citizenship: (Hetero)Sexual Offences, Law And "White" Settler Society In British Columbia, 1885-1940 / Chunn, Dorothy E. -- Chapter 17. "Unfit" Citizens And The B.C. Royal Commission On Mental Hygiene, 1925-28 / Menzies, Robert -- Contributors -- Index

The dismantling and restructuring of Keynesian social security programmes have impacted disproportionately on women, especially lone parent mothers, and shifted public discourse and social images from welfare fraud to welfare as fraud, thereby linking poverty, welfare and crime. This article analyzes the current, inordinate focus on 'welfare cheats'. The criminalization of poverty raises theoretical and empirical questions related to regulation, control, and the relationship between them at particular historical moments. Moral regulation scholars working within post-structuralist and post-modern frameworks have developed an influential approach to these issues; however, we situate ourselves in a different stream of critical socio-legal studies that takes as its point of departure the efficacy, contradictions and inherently social nature of law in a given social formation. With reference to the historical treatment of poor women on welfare, we develop three themes in our critical review of the moral regulation concept: the conceptualization of welfare and welfare law, as illustrated by welfare fraud; the relationship between social and moral with respect to the role of law; and changing forms of the relationship between state and non-state institutions and agencies. We conclude with comments on the utility of a 'materialist' concept of moral regulation for feminist theorizing.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Regulating Lives -- Introduction -- 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia -- 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849- 78: Care, Cure, or Confinement? -- 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871- 1927 -- 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re) Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890- 1940 -- 5 'Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth- Century British Columbia -- 6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914- 35 -- 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 -- 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939- 45 -- 9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950- 60 -- Postlude -- Contributors -- Index.