Public Violence in Canada, 1867-1982

Table of Contents

• Contents 6
• Figures and Tables 8
• Preface 10
• 1 The Concept of Violence 16
• A Unified Concept of Violence? 22
• Public and Private Violence 27
• 2 An Overview of Canadian Public Violence 30
• The Frontier 30
• Wartime 35
• Elections 37
• On the Job 38
• Ethnic and Religious Groups 43
• Other Violence 52
• 3 Characteristics of Canadian Public Violence 55
• Typologies of Public Violence 55
• Classification and Analysis 58
• Cross-National Comparisons 70
• 4 The Meaning of Violence 80
• Constructing the Social Reality of Violence 80
• Conflicting Perceptions of Violence 85
• Social Bases of Conflicting Perceptions 91
• 5 Culture and Ideology 98
• The Declining Legitimacy of Violence 99
• Cultures of Violence 105
• Canada: The Peaceable Kingdom 113
• Ideologies 119
• 6 The Breakdown of Restraints Against Violence 128
• The Violent Crowd 129
• Anomic and Marginal Populations 132
• Indicators of Anomie 134
• Factors Producing Anomie 145
• 7 The Growth of Discontent 159
• The Discontents Associated with Violence 159
• The Exacerbation of Discontent 163
• Discontent in Canada 167
• Violent Canadians and their Discontents 176
• 8 Solidarity Theories 184
• Mobilization 185
• Types of Groups 187
• Maintaining Cohesion 189
• Leaders and Followers 194
• Organizational Structure, Success, and Violence 198
• A Participant's Account of the On to Ottawa Trek 207
• 9 The Role of the Government 215
• Governments and Violence 215
• Conciliation versus Coercion 218
• The Costs of Coercion 224
• The Legal Framework 225
• The Effectiveness of Governmental Violence 231
• Changing Levels of Government and Dissident Violence 235
• 10 Conclusion 245
• Appendix 256
• Bibliography 258
• Index 274
• A 274
• B 274
• C 275
• D 276
• E 276
• F 276
• G 277
• H 278
• I 278
• J 278
• K 278
• L 278
• M 279
• N 279
• O 280
• P 280
• Q 280
• R 281
• S 281
• T 282
• U 282
• V 283
• W 283
• Y 283
• Z 283