How Did We Get Here? Exploring the Socio-Political Influences in Canadian Penitentiaries: 1800-1955
- Date: Monday, August 22, 2022 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
The Frost Centre is pleased to announce the following upcoming MA in Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Thesis Defence:
Student: Alicia Carefoote
Title: How Did We Get Here? Exploring the Socio-Political Influences in Canadian Penitentiaries: 1800-1955
Date: Monday August 22, 2022 at 2 pm EST
Examining Committee: P. Whitney Lackenbauer (Supervisor), Frederick Desroches (External Examiner – St. Jerome’s University/University of Waterloo), Heather Nicol
Chair: Karleen Pendleton-Jimenez
Please contact frostcentre@trentu.ca for connection details.
ABSTRACT
This thesis examines how political and social issues have moulded and altered Canada’s penal system since the nineteenth-century. From early Anglo-Canadian society to Joseph Archambault’s 1938 Report of the Royal Commission to Investigate the Penal System of Canada, the Canadian penal system waxed and waned against social and political tides. As rehabilitative justice took hold throughout the developed world in the early twentieth century, Canada attempted to shift its justice ideologies only to find that punitive justice had created strong footings. This made reform challenging to implement.
Keywords: Canadian penal system, socio-political influences of prisons, prison systems, Joseph Archambault, 1932 Archambault report, Canadian society, American society, prison press, prison writing
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Posted on August 16, 2022