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

by Peter Oliver

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802081667
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	08/22/1998
Series:	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Pages:	622
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Peter Oliver is a professor in the Department of History at York University and Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.