Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32 (New)

by Zhiqiu Lin

In Policing the Wild North-West, the first comprehensive social history of provincial police in western Canada between 1905 and 1932, Zhiqiu Lin investigates the complex relationship between the role of policing, the political sphere, and social progress.

This book attempts to analyze the effects on provincial police in Alberta and Saskatchewan of various social phenomena ranging from political radicals and vagrants to prohibition bootleggers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552381714
• ISBN13: 9781552381717
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"