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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: McCoy, Ted. Hard Time : Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, ©2014 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ted McCoy |
ISBN: | 9781926836973 1926836979 |
OCLC Number: | 985311137 |
Description: | 1 online resource (350 pages) |
Contents: | Labour -- Reform -- Criminality -- Prison life -- Medicine -- Punishment -- Conclusion. |
Abstract:
Tracing the rise and evolution of Canadian penitentiaries in the nineteenth century, this book examines the concepts of criminality and rehabilitation, the role of labour in penal regimes, and the problem of violence.
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