Criminalizing women in the Last Best West: gender, race, and class in the Alberta Criminal Justice System, 1892-1920

Hall, Sarah (2019) Criminalizing women in the Last Best West: gender, race, and class in the Alberta Criminal Justice System, 1892-1920. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Abstract

Research addressing the regional differences in patterns of criminalization between Central Canada and Western Canada has been overlooked by many historians of criminal law. This research looks into those differences and explores how the unique developments in the political, social, and economic history of Alberta influences the patterns of criminalization women of different races, and social classes experienced as Alberta transitioned from a Territory to a Province (1892-1920). The findings reveal a complex evolution of gender, race, and class discourses as Alberta’s frontier society was transformed to an agrarian society and later a mixed agrarian and industrial society as settler colonialism, temperance and social reform campaigns, and geopolitical upheaval redefined the region.

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