Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis examines how political and social issues have molded and alteredCanada'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… more Full Text: How Did We Get Here? Exploring Socio-Political Influences in Canadian Penitentiaries: 1800-1955 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …