"Published originally under the title La liberte du pauvre. Crime et pauvrete au XIXe siecle quebecois à VLB Ãditeur 2004"--Title page verso.
Content Note
Introduction -- Part 1: Regulation and liberalism in Quebec. The concept of regulation ; Freedom, state, and individual : the shifting patterns of nineteenth-century liberal regulation ; The regulation of crime and poverty : the old system in crisis -- Part 2: Crime and punishment in the liberal era. The administration of crime and the vicissitudes of liberalism ; The regulation of juvenile delinquency and child protection -- Part 3. Poverty and welfare in the liberal era. An ethics of poverty ; Church and religion in the charity economy -- Conclusion.