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Author Oliver, Peter, 1939-

Title 'Terror to evil-doers' : prisons and punishments in nineteenth-century Ontario / Peter Oliver.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [1998]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, digital file.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""
""U""""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Publications of The Osgoode Society""
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Subject Prisons -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century.
Prisons.
Ontario.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Imprisonment -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century.
Imprisonment.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Other Form: Print version: Oliver, Peter. 'Terror to Evil-Doers' : Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9780802043450
ISBN 9781442664791 (electronic book)
1442664797 (electronic book)