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Le Code criminel canadien 1892-1927: Étude des acteurs sociaux

1998; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 79; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/chr.79.2.261

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André Cellard, Gérald Pelletier,

Canadian Identity and History

Cree en 1892, le Code criminel canadien fit l’objet de plusieurs centaines de modifications au cours des quelque trente-cinq annees qui suivirent. Le but de cet article est precisement de decoder les resonances sociales multiples liees a une activite legislative aussi febrile. Pour ce faite, les auteurs ont procede a l’identification des individus ou groupes d’individus qui, a l’avant-scene ou dans l’ombre, presiderent a l’evolution du Code entre les annees 1892 et 1927. Ils font ressortir, en les replacant dans le contexte de l’epoque, les motivations profondes de ces acteurs sociaux et montrent que les pressions qu’ils exercerent aupres du legislateur conduisirent a un durcissement fort important de la loi penale au Canada durant cette periode. Abstract: The Canadian Criminal Code underwent several hundred modifications during the thirty-five years that followed its creation in 1892. Our goal in this article is to understand the many social forces that accompanied and influenced such a fever of legislative activity. In order to do so, we have undertaken to identify the individuals or groups of individuals who were involved, either at the forefront or behind the scenes, in the evolution of the Code between 1892 and 1927; we bring out, reintegrated in their original context, the underlying motivations of these social activists and demonstrate that the influence they exerted on legislators led to a significant toughening of the penal code in Canada during this period.