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New Brunswick Criminal Justice History Bibliography 2011

Annis, Wayne J., The New Brunswick Provincial Police: 1927-1932 (Burtt’ s Corner, NB: Donkey Productions, 2005)

Babcock, Robert, "The Saint John Street Railwaymen’s Strike and Riot, 1914," Acadiensis, XI, 2 (Spring 1982): 3-27

Baehre, John Rainer, "Convicts as Workers and Prisons as Factory in Mid-Victorian Canada: A study of the Saint John, N.B. Penitentiary,"in Essays in the History of Canadian Law, vol. 5: Crime and Criminal Justice in Canadian History, eds. S. Lewthwaite, T. Loo, and J. Phillips (Toronto: The Osgoode Society, 1994): 439-77

Bates, Walter, Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger (Saint John: John A. Bowes, 1910)

Couturier, Jacques Paul, "Prohiber ou contrôler? l’application de l’acte de tempérance du Canada à; Moncton, N.-B., 1881-1896,’ Acadiensis, XVII, 2 (printemps 1988): 3-26

Cusack, Ruby, Yesteryear: The Maggie Vail Story (c. 1987)

Davis, Claude Mark,"Prohibition in New Brunswick, 1917-1927, " (MA thesis: University of New Brunswick, 1979)

Davis, Claude Mark, "I’ll drink to that: The rise and fall of prohibition in the Maritime Provinces, 1900-1930" (Ph.D thesis, McMaster University, 1990)

Dearborn, Dorothy, Gallows of New Brunswick (Saint John: Neptune Pub., c. 1999)

Fingard, Judith, "Masters and Friends, Crimps and Abstainers: Agents of Control in 19th Century Sailortown," Acadiensis, VIII, 1 (Autumn 1978): 22-46

Fingard, Judith, Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1982)

Fraser, Raymond, Todd Matchett: Confessions of a Young Criminal (Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1994)

Godin, F.G., The First Law Enforcers for Gloucester Co. and Bathurst (Bathurst, c. 2006)

Grant, B.J., Six for the Hangman (Fredericton: Goose lane Editions, 1983).

Grant, B.J., When Rum was King: The Story of the Prohibition Era in New Brunswick (Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Book, 1984)

Grant, B.J. The Evil That Men Do: Crime and Punishment: Three Centuries in New Brunswick (Sommerville Press, c. 1993)

Greenwood, Murray and Boissery, Beverley, Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953 (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Legal History, 2000)

Hutchinson, Lorna, "Buggery Trials in Saint John, 1806: The Case of Mr. John M. Smith," UNB Law Journal, v. 40 (1991): 130-38

Hustak, Alan, They Were Hanged (Downsview: University of Toronto Press, 1987)

James, Robert, Reader, be thou also ready (Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, c. 2000).

Jeffrey, Leslie A and MacDonald, Gayle, Sex Trade Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006)

Lawrence, Joseph William, The Judges of New Brunswick and Their Times (1907) ed. by D.G. Bell, (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1983)

Leyden, Susan Kathleen, Crimes and Controversies: Law and Society in Loyalist Saint John (Saint John: Saint John Law Society, 1987)

Leyden-Brown, Ken, The Practice of Execution in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010)

MacBeth, George and Hubert, Emelie, The York County Jail (Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, 2008)

MacLean, Rick, Veniot, Andre, Terror: Murder and Panic in New Brunswick (Toronto: McClellan and Stewart, 1991)

MacLean, Rick, Veniot, Andre, Waters, Shaun, Terror’s End: Alan Legere on Trial (Toronto: McClellan and Stewart, 1992)

McGahan, Peter, Crime and Policing in Maritime: Chapters from the Urban Records (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 1988)

McGahan, Peter, Crime and Policing in Woodstock, New Brunswick, 1900-1910 (Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 1989)

McGahan, Peter, Killers, Thieves Tramps and Sinners (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 1989)

Marquis, Greg, "A Machine of Oppression Under the Guise of the Law: The Saint John Police Establishment, 1860-90," Acadiensis, XVI (Autumn 1986): 58-77

Marquis, Greg, "Civilized Drinking’: Alcohol and Society in New Brunswick, 1945-75," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, (2000): 173-203

Marquis, Greg, "Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick," in Hamar Foster, Ben Berger and A.R. Buck eds. TheGrand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008): 221-39

Myers, Sharon "Revenge and Revolt: The Boys’ Industrial Home of East Saint John in the Inter-War Period," in Children’s Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture: Essays on Childhood, Hilary Thompson, ed. (Guelph, Ontario: Canadian Children’s Press, 1995): 104-113.

O’Neill, Brian, Bodies in the Backyard: Canada’s Frenzy Slaying (O’Neill Enterprises, c. 1993)

Pitrie, Marie-Claire, "Les Acadiens et les Juges de paix: Étude des Relations entre les Acadiens du Gloucester et le Monde de la Justice 1784-1867, UNB Law Journal, 39 (1990): 171-84

Reynolds, W. Kilby, Old-time tragedies: celebrated cases before the courts in Saint John, N.B. (Saint John: Progress Electric Print, 1895).

Saunders, Kenneth, The Rectory Murder: The Mysterious Crime That Shocked Turn of the Century New Brunswick (Toronto: Lorimer 1989)

Schneider, Stephen, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2009)

See, Scott W., "’Mickeys and Demons’ vs. ’Bigots and Boobies’: The Woodstock Riot of 1847," Acadiensis, XXI, 1 (Autumn 1991), pp. 110-131

See, Scott W., "The Orange Order and Social Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Saint John," Acadiensis, XIII, 1 (Autumn 1983), pp. 68-92

See, Scott W., Riots in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993)

See, Scott W.,"Nineteenth-Century Collective Violence: Toward a North American Context," Labour/LeTravail, 39 (Spring 1997): 13-38

Stanley, George, "The Caraquet Riots of 1875," Acadiensis, II, 1 (Autumn 1972): 21-38

Townshend, David A., Manners, Morals and Mayhem: A Look at the First 200 years of Law and Order in New Brunswick (Fredericton: Public legal Information Services, Inc., 1985)

Wallace, Gerald F. Higgins, William and McGahan, Peter, The Saint John Police Story: The Clark Years, 1890-1915 (Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1991)

Wallace, Gerald F. Higgins, William and McGahan, Peter, The Saint John Police Story: Volume 2: The Simpson Years, 1915-1919 (Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1991)

Wallace, Gerald F. Higgins, William and McGahan, Peter, The Saint John Police Story: Volume 3: The Slader Years 1930-1941 (Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1993)

Wallace, Gerald F. Higgins, William and McGahan, Peter, The Saint John Police Story: Volume 4: The McLesse Years 1941-1947 (Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1994)

Wallace, Gerald F. Higgins, William and McGahan, Peter, The Saint John Police Story: Volume 5: The Oakes Years 1947-1958 (Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1996)

Wallace, Gerald F. Higgins, William and McGahan, Peter, The Saint John Police Story: Volume 6: The Van Wart Years, 1958-1965 (Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1996)

Winder, Gordon, "Trouble in the North End: The Geography of Social Violence in Saint John, 1840-1860," Acadiensis, XXIX, 2 (Spring 2000): 27-57

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