History 2190A/B Lecture 10: Lecture 10
18 Jan 2019
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Crime and morality: prostitution, alcohol, drugs and gambling. Activities that are deemed to be outside of what is morally acceptable in a society at a given time. Considered to be consensual and victimless (although this is disputed: ex. possession of illegal contraband, atypical sexual behaviour etc. 1800"s: new type of crime (public order, new purpose for police to prevent and detect crime. What were the reasons for creating these laws: for public safety, to regulate economy, to police public spaces, to restrain public morals, to regulate public health. Most social reformers were white, middle to upper class, european, protestant and were worried about: women, children, lower class, foreigners . Canada (1919 to early 1920"s: led by the christian women"s temperance union, provincial laws varied (never popular in quebec, enforcement difficult, led to bootlegging, after 1920"s individual provinces set drinking ages.
