Terror to Evil-doers : Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / Peter Oliver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliver, Peter, author.

Series:

Osgoode society for Canadian legal history.

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons.

Imprisonment.

Reformatories for women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 577 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Summary:

The history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored primary material, Oliver provides a narrative and interpretative account of the penal system in 19th-century Ontario.

Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

MAP

Part I: Colonial Origins

1 Upper Canadian Punishments

2 The Gaol and the Community

3 'Order Is Heaven's First Law': The Tory Origins of Upper Canada's Penitentiary

Part II: In the Penitentiary

4 'The Reformation of Convicts Is Unknown': The Penitentiary under Henry Smith, 1834-1848

5 New Beginnings: The Penitentiary in the 1850s

6 'Moral Monsters,' Refractory Females, Children, and Workers

7 Disciplinary Advances

8 Institutional Rigidities and Punitive Policies: The Penitentiary's Enduring Reality

Part III: Alternative Sanctions and Reform Initiatives

9 'The Government Boarding House': Upper Canada's Gaols in the Age of Progress

10 The Persistence of Community: Ontario's Gaols in the Industrial Era

11 Terrorizing the Underclass: The Intermediate Prisons

12 Aftercare and the Ambiguities of Reform

CONCLUSION

NOTES

INDEX

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B

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E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

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T

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W

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Publications of The Osgoode Society.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.