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Borderline Crime Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914

Miller Bradley
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487501273
Publisert
2016-10-11
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
600 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Miller Bradley

Om bidragsyterne

Bradley Miller is an assistant professor in the Department History at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Keenleyside Chair in Canada and the World.

Borderline Crime Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914

Miller Bradley
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
Miller Bradley
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
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<p>‘Miller’s excellent book is a welcome addition to work on extradition examining everyday legal practices and their underlying jurisprudence foundations… It provides an important study into the intersection between international, British imperial and Canadian law.’</p>

- Emily Whewell, Legal History vol 25:2017

<p>"An important and helpful book for legal historians of the Canada-US border, [<i>Borderline Crime</i>] lays a framework for examining how the border was interpreted as a legal and political entity during its most formative years in the nineteenth century. "</p>

- Brandon Dimmel, BC Studies no. 198, Summer 2018

<p>"This is a scholarly, closely argued book, but it will have appeal to a wide audience. Bradley Miller illustrates his themes with engaging and entertaining examples and writes clearly and concisely…<i>Borderline Crime</i> should become required reading in colonial, early Canadian, and North American international and diplomatic history."</p>

- Lori Chambers, Lakehead University, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018

From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. Limited by the power of territorial sovereignty, officials were unable to simply retrieve fugitives and refugees from foreign territory. Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada. For nearly a century, officials ranging from high court judges to local police officers embraced the ethos of transnational enforcement of criminal law. By focusing on common criminals, escaped slaves, and political refugees, Miller reveals a period of legal genesis where both formal and informal legal regimes were established across northern North America and around the world to extradite and abduct fugitives. Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law. This engrossing history will be of interest to legal, political, and intellectual historians alike.
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Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.
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Chapter 1: Introduction  Part I: Sovereign Borders and Criminal Law in Northern North America Chapter 2: The Everyday Challenge of Sovereignty      Chapter 3: The Low and High Law of Abduction in the Border Zone  Part II: Uncertainty, Amorphousness, and Non-Law Chapter 4: International Law and Supranational Justice in Northern North America      Chapter 5: The Non-Law of Refugees in British North America Part III: Law Formation in the Treaty Era Chapter 6: Civilization on the Continent: Law Reform and Imperial Power      Chapter 7: Law Formation in the Common Law World  Chapter 8: Conclusion  
Les mer
"Professor Miller’s fascinating book makes a valuable contribution to international legal history and to our understanding of the relationships between international, British imperial and Canadian law at the high and low levels – which turn out to look remarkably different from one another – and of circuits of law within the British Empire."
Les mer
"Professor Miller's fascinating book makes a valuable contribution to international legal history and to our understanding of the relationships between international, British imperial and Canadian law at the high and low levels - which turn out to look remarkably different from one another - and of circuits of law within the British Empire." -- Karen Knop, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto "Miller is not only intimately familiar with but also extensively and very appropriately uses the internal literature on extradition, asylum, and related issues as the foundation of his study. Borderline Crime is an intriguing and illuminating study." -- Jane Errington, Department of History, Queen's University
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<p>‘Miller’s excellent book is a welcome addition to work on extradition examining everyday legal practices and their underlying jurisprudence foundations… It provides an important study into the intersection between international, British imperial and Canadian law.’</p>

- Emily Whewell, Legal History vol 25:2017

<p>"An important and helpful book for legal historians of the Canada-US border, [<i>Borderline Crime</i>] lays a framework for examining how the border was interpreted as a legal and political entity during its most formative years in the nineteenth century. "</p>

- Brandon Dimmel, BC Studies no. 198, Summer 2018

<p>"This is a scholarly, closely argued book, but it will have appeal to a wide audience. Bradley Miller illustrates his themes with engaging and entertaining examples and writes clearly and concisely…<i>Borderline Crime</i> should become required reading in colonial, early Canadian, and North American international and diplomatic history."</p>

- Lori Chambers, Lakehead University, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018

From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. Limited by the power of territorial sovereignty, officials were unable to simply retrieve fugitives and refugees from foreign territory. Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada. For nearly a century, officials ranging from high court judges to local police officers embraced the ethos of transnational enforcement of criminal law. By focusing on common criminals, escaped slaves, and political refugees, Miller reveals a period of legal genesis where both formal and informal legal regimes were established across northern North America and around the world to extradite and abduct fugitives. Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law. This engrossing history will be of interest to legal, political, and intellectual historians alike.
Les mer
Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.
Les mer
Chapter 1: Introduction  Part I: Sovereign Borders and Criminal Law in Northern North America Chapter 2: The Everyday Challenge of Sovereignty      Chapter 3: The Low and High Law of Abduction in the Border Zone  Part II: Uncertainty, Amorphousness, and Non-Law Chapter 4: International Law and Supranational Justice in Northern North America      Chapter 5: The Non-Law of Refugees in British North America Part III: Law Formation in the Treaty Era Chapter 6: Civilization on the Continent: Law Reform and Imperial Power      Chapter 7: Law Formation in the Common Law World  Chapter 8: Conclusion  
Les mer
"Professor Miller’s fascinating book makes a valuable contribution to international legal history and to our understanding of the relationships between international, British imperial and Canadian law at the high and low levels – which turn out to look remarkably different from one another – and of circuits of law within the British Empire."
Les mer
"Professor Miller's fascinating book makes a valuable contribution to international legal history and to our understanding of the relationships between international, British imperial and Canadian law at the high and low levels - which turn out to look remarkably different from one another - and of circuits of law within the British Empire." -- Karen Knop, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto "Miller is not only intimately familiar with but also extensively and very appropriately uses the internal literature on extradition, asylum, and related issues as the foundation of his study. Borderline Crime is an intriguing and illuminating study." -- Jane Errington, Department of History, Queen's University
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487501273
Publisert
2016-10-11
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
600 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Miller Bradley

Om bidragsyterne

Bradley Miller is an assistant professor in the Department History at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Keenleyside Chair in Canada and the World.

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