Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada
ISBN-10
1926836960
ISBN-13
9781926836966
Series
Hard Time
Category
History
Pages
339
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Athabasca University Press
Author
Ted McCoy

Description

The success and failure of prison reform and the corresponding social history of punishment in Canada.

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