'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

by Peter Oliver

Book Overview

This is the history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored primary material - including the papers of prison inspectors and officials and the correspondence of those who wrote to the authorities - Peter Oliver provides a narrative and interpretative account of the penal system in nineteenth-century Ontario.

In a century of massive social change, the penal system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802081665
• ISBN13: 9780802081667
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher