TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Aspects of the Criminal Law, Crime, Criminal Process and Punishment in Europe and Canada, 1500-1935 -- I. THE CRIMINAL LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE -- The Refinement of English Criminal Jurisprudence, 1500-1848 -- Criminal Jurisprudence in Ancien-Régime France: The Parlement of Paris in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The Meanings of the Criminal Law in Quebec, 1764-1774 -- II. CRIME AND CRIMINALITY -- English Thinking About Crime, 1530-1620 -- Judicial Records and the Measurement of Crime in Eighteenth-Century England -- The Measurement of Crime in Nineteenth-Century Canada -- Some Methodological and Philosophical Problems -- III. THE CRIMINAL LAW PROCESS IN CANADA -- Women and Crime in Canada in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1712-1759 -- "Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity": The Historical Roots of the Canadian Insanity Defence, 1843-1920 -- Patterns of Prairie Crime: Calgary, 1875-1939 -- Adapting Our Justice System to the Cultural Needs of Canada's North -- IV. PUNISHMENT, AND THEORIES OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- Punishment During the Ancien Régime: The Case of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic -- Convict Life in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries, 1867-1900 -- Theory and the History of Criminal Justice -- A Philosophical Perspective on Historical Research into Law.