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True Crime General

Crime and Policing in Maritime Canada

by (author) Peter McGahan

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
General, Criminology, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780864920850
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $24.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864920812
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $14.95

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Crime and Policing in Maritime Canada contains fascinating accounts of criminal and police life in major centres of the Maritimes. These are very human narratives of what policing meant in different places and at different times from the 1830s to the 1960s.

About the author

Peter McGahan was Dean of Faculty at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, and spent several years researching the history and nature of crime and criminals in the Maritime region.

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