Joel Kropf
Doctoral Candidate
| Degrees: | B.A. (Trinity Western University); M.A. (Carleton University) |
| Email: | joelkropf@yahoo.ca |
Supervisor(s): Brian McKillop
Research Topic: The ethical thought of penal reformers in interwar and postwar Canada
The provisional title of my project is “Pursuing Human Techniques of Progressive Justice: The Ethical Mind-Set of English-Canadian Penal Reformers, 1920-1970.” My research examines the rhetoric that reformers used to advocate a rehabilitative focus in penal practice, and to promote the revised approaches to imprisonment, probation, and parole that they believed such a focus would require. The main goal of the project is to identify the ethical assumptions and tropes on which reformers drew as they argued in favour of their cause, especially as they raised issues pertaining to exclusion, condemnation, coercion, and compassion