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Canada's Big House: The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary

Canada's Big House: The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary - Paperback

by Peter H. Hennessy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter H. HennessyPublish date:10/1/1999Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dundurn PressISBN-13:9781550023305ISBN-10:1550023306UPC:9781550023305Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:Canada, Social History, Criminal LawSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCJVHNSAEZ

The story of Kingston Penitentiarys rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Dundurn PressISBN-13:9781550023305ISBN-10:1550023306UPC:9781550023305Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:Canada, Social History, Criminal LawSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCJVHNSAEZ

Peter H. Hennessy is a retired educator - teacher of high school history and, latterly, professor of education at Queen's University in Kingston. While principal of the Port Arthur Collegiate (Thunder Bay) in the 1960s, he developed the fixed idea that schools are comparable with prisons, mental institutions, and homes for the aged. They are all designed, he believes, to shape humans into semi-dependent beings for the convenience of society. That is the animating philosophy of his book.


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