Determining responsibility: A media analysis of the death of Ashley Smith

Authors

  • Chantell Morais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/dqak2g88

Author Biography

  • Chantell Morais

    Chantell Morais is a PhD candidate in socio-legal studies at York University.

References

Ashley Smith deserved better [Editorial]. (2014, December 13). Telegraph-Journal.

Butler, Judith. (2004). Precarious life: The powers of mourning and violence. London, UK: Verso Books.

Clayton-Thomas, David. (2013, January 23). Ashley Smith could have been me. The Globe and Mail.

Comack, Elizabeth, & Brickey, Salena. (2007). Constituting the violence of criminalized women. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 49(1): 1-36.

Correctional Service Canada. (2014, December). Response to the coroner’s inquest touching the death of Ashley Smith. Retrieved from http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/publications/005007-9011-eng.shtml

Jones, Allison. (2013, March 5). Ashley Smith could have been treated. Telegraph-Journal.

Kendall, Kathleen. (2000). Psy-ence fiction: Governing female prisons through the psychological sciences. In Kelly Hannah-Moffat & Margaret Shaw (Eds.), An ideal prison? Critical essays on women’s imprisonment in Canada (pp. 82-93). Halifax, NS: Fernwood.

Kilty, Jennifer M. (2014). Examining the “psy-carceral complex” in the death of Ashley Smith. In Gillian Balfour & Elizabeth Comack (Eds.), Criminalizing women: Gender and (in)justice in neoliberal times (2nd ed., pp. 236254). Halifax, NS: Fernwood.

Linke, R. (2007a, November 8). Moncton teen jailed for apple throwing; crime case of Ashley Smith to be used as example of human rights abuses in prison system. Telegraph-Journal.

Linke, R. (2007b, November 21). Teen alleged she was assaulted by jail staff; revelations, new details emerge in Ashley Smith’s death. Telegraph-Journal.

Linke, R. (2007c, November 24). Chained and bound; prison: Ashley Smith was kept shackled in segregation, new information reveals. Telegraph-Journal.

Makin, Kirk. (2010, October 30). Ashley Smith’s death an accident, not suicide, report says. The Globe and Mail.

Martel, Joane. (2000). Women in the “hole”: The unquestioned practice of segregation. In Kelly Hannah-Moffat & Margaret Shaw (Eds.), An ideal prison? Critical essays on women’s imprisonment in Canada (pp. 128135). Halifax, NS: Fernwood.

Perkel, Colin. (2013a, February 26). Ashley Smith worsened after prison hostage taking. The Globe and Mail.

Perkel, Colin. (2013b, March 26). Ashley Smith a “large tyrannical child,” psychiatrist tells inquest. TelegraphJournal.

Downloads

Published

2017-05-31

How to Cite

Determining responsibility: A media analysis of the death of Ashley Smith. (2017). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/dqak2g88