12. Crime and Punishment in Middlesex County, Ontario, 1871–1920

Boritch, Helen; Lewthwaite, Susan; Loo, Tina; Phillips, Jeremy

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“…The literature on crime trends in the province, both during the early‐nineteenth‐century (see, Bellomo, 1972: 11–13; Weaver, 1986: 177; 185–186; Rogers, 1984: 132–135) and later during the mid‐to‐late nineteenth century (see, Boritch and Hagan, 1987; Boritch, 1994: 395–400) also confirms this. This trend is also visible in the number of persons who were convicted for vagrancy and sentenced to serve time in a correctional institution.…”

Section: Vagrancy As a Social Problemmentioning

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Vagrancy as a Penal Problem: The Logistics of Administering Punishment in Late‐Nineteenth‐Century Canada

Ranasinghe¹

2012

J Historical Sociology

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There exists a voluminous literature on the history of vagrancy and vagrancy legislation. However, virtually all of its focus has been on the manifestations of vagrancy as a social problem. What has not received attention is another important aspect to this history, one that finds its roots and geneses directly out of its construction as a social problem. This is the problem associated with the logistics surrounding the administration of punishment within correctional institutions, what I call vagrancy as a penal problem. The day‐to‐day operations of the criminal justice system, especially that part which was responsible for the administration of punishment, were immensely burdened because of the sheer number of vagrants who came through the system. This created logistical problems with respect to housing, classifying, maintaining and regulating prisoners, and especially with respect to vagrants, putting them to hard labour. This paper seeks to elucidate the penal problem of vagrancy by narrating the voices of the personnel who worked in correctional institutions.

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Section: Vagrancy As a Social Problemmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…The extant literature also confirms this trend for the province as a whole (see, Weaver, 1986: 196–198; Bellomo, 1972; Graff, 1973: 136–153; Boritch, 1994: 409–416). All this explains how and why vagrants came to occupy such a large number of committals to the correctional institutions in the province.…”

Section: Vagrancy As a Social Problemmentioning

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Vagrancy as a Penal Problem: The Logistics of Administering Punishment in Late‐Nineteenth‐Century Canada

Ranasinghe¹

2012

J Historical Sociology

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12. Crime and Punishment in Middlesex County, Ontario, 1871–1920

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Vagrancy as a Penal Problem: The Logistics of Administering Punishment in Late‐Nineteenth‐Century Canada

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