About Ted McCoy Ted McCoy is an associate professor in Sociology at the University of Calgary. He is a historian of punishment and has published on penitentiaries in Canada’s nineteenth century. His books include Hard Time (2012) and Four Unruly Women (2019). Books by Ted McCoy Canada's Legal Pasts Looking Foreward, Looking Back edited by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy & Melanie Methot contributions by Nick Austin, Eric H. Reiter, Christopher Shorey, Angela Fernandez, Catharine MacMillan, Alexandra Havrylyshyn, Jean-Phillipe Garneau, Shelley A.M. Gavigan, Dominique Clement & Louis A. Knafla Hard Time Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada by (author) Ted McCoy