Slave to the Farm : True Tales of Truancy & Incarceration
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Slave to the Farm : True Tales of Truancy & Incarceration
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| Abstract |
The autobiography of a woman who, as a teenager in 1983, refused to go to school and became a ward of Quebec’s juvenile system, eventually making her way to the Shawbridge Youth Centre (formerly The Shawbridge Boys' Farm). The author questions the use of incarceration as a means of dealing with youth protection cases, and she offers a glimpse inside one of Quebec’s oldest juvenile detention centres. The Shawbridge Boys' Farm, in the Laurentian foothills north of Montreal, has been a reform school for children since 1907. In 1992 the Shawbridge Farm merged with the Ville Marie Child and Youth Protection Centre, Youth Horizons and Mount St. Patrick Youth Centre to form the Batshaw Youth and Family Centres.
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Ottawa, ON
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First Class Press
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2013
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| # of Pages |
270p.
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| Language |
en
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| ISBN |
978-1-55323-663-4
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| Citation |
Tafel, Erika. Slave to the Farm : True Tales of Truancy & Incarceration. Edited by Ellen Tolson. Ottawa, ON: First Class Press, 2013.
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