CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Magdalene Sisters, Polysemy, Commodification

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Middle ages = holding cells (very difficult circumstances, dies before hand from starvation or disease) Late 18th century = workhouses (really tough work and circumstances) The magdalene sisters & songs for a raggy boy. The last magdalene sisters house closed the same year the last residential school in canada did. They didn"t have to money to pay off their debt. Only murder and treason were punishable by death. Overcrowding in jails (waiting for their trials) e. Hulks fall out of favour (due to overcrowding) Petitions state to abandon jails & punishment only. No longer private contractors but employees of the state in need for regulation. Individual reform rather than social reform (silent association) Constructions of penal history and sanitization/ deflection of attention away from current violations/ abuses in prisons. How was the content of the tour "constructed" as walby and piche explain.