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This month at #crimlib, come learn about the history of forensic mental health care in Canada. Displayed government doc, annual reports & accounts written by patients aim to demonstrate the development, flaws and changes at the intersection of mental health and criminalization.
You don’t need to watch the latest heist movie when you can come to the #CrimLib and read the Theft of Cultural Property in Canada registers! Learn all about missing Rembrandts, Chagalls and Picassos stolen from galleries, museums, and private homes. 1/3
Interested in prison labour? The #CrimLib has a new thematic source guide listing the primary source, statistical and academic titles in our collections. Dating from 1867 to 2022, we hold resources from Canada, US, Aus, India, Israel, Kenya and Nigeria. https://t.co/qdovfHtFyn
On #InternationalWomensDay learn more about the lived experiences of incarcerated women through their own words and illustrations in the #CrimLib's penal press exhibition: https://t.co/w7XgUZWEzE
The #CrimLib is thrilled to announce we'll be releasing our new online exhibition, "This Book is Free, the Contributors are Not: The Penal Press in Canada" at the end of the month. This exhibition will focus on lived incarcerated experience in their own words. Watch this space!
Our January display is up! Grey literature of community organizations feature historical (and often difficult to access) research, statistics and first-hand accounts for specific locations, events, groups and populations. Come see some examples at the #crimlib!
December's monthly highlight, Christmas Behind Bars, showcases issues from our penal press collection to explore the experience of the holidays while incarcerated. On display for the month at the #crimlib
Are you interested in doing primary source historical research on women in the justice system in Canada? At the #CrimLib you can find grey literature, statistics, community org newsletters and writings from incarcerated women in both federal and provincial corrections. 1/4
1/6 The #crimlib holds material on the historical and ongoing overincarceration of Indigenous people, which is linked to the colonial criminal justice system, and the forced loss of language, culture and familial ties, caused by residential school and the foster care system.
The #crimlib is on the road and still finding interesting criminology resources. Today at @ArchivesnatFr is the original and signed document that abolished the death penalty in France in 1981.
On display at the #crimlib: Indigenous authors, changemakers and organizations and their struggle to present the Indigenous perspective of law and crime, and create change and reform to the colonial-centred Canadian criminal justice system and correctional institutions.
The #CrimLib is getting a makeover! We'll be closed 17-19 May for moving and installation of our new furniture. Library books can still be returned any time via the dropbox at the front of the building.
Interested in this topic? Take a look at Tightwire - the magazine written and produced by incarcerated women at Canada's Prison for Women in Kingston. The #CrimLib holds an 18-year run (1975-1993) of Tightwire featuring editorials, articles, art and poetry.
The #CrimLib's #penalpress collection provides first-hand insight into the early history of Indigenous #activism inside Canadian penitentiaries. This includes the founding of the first Native Brotherhood in 1964, and advocating to practice traditional ways in 1981.
Check out the #Crimlib's, Stories from the Stacks. This issue focuses on the Quill, a patient-produced journal from the secure Oak Ridge psychiatric unit in Penetanguishene, which contains first-hand accounts of experiments conducted on them by the administration in the 1960s.
The Winter 2023 edition of the CrimSL Newsletter is now available. Get to know this year's new faces, celebrate last year's accomplishments, view a recap of the 2023 Edwards Lecture and - new this year - take a deeper dive into the @CrimLib's resources: https://t.co/LvCac27s0K
Happy Holidays from the #CrimLib.
The Library will close on 21 December and will reopen on 3 January.
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