Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada

• Main Author: McCoy, Ted (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2012
• Subjects: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Penitentiary; Social reform; legal history; prison
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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