UW Gazette, November 12, 1997
    
    Tickets are available for next week's Hagey Lecture by
Canadian writer David Cayley.
    He will give the 1997 Lecture on Wednesday, November
19, at 8 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre. The title of his
talk is "The Expanding Prison: Is There an Alternative?"
based on his forthcoming book from House of Anansi Press.
    Says Dr. Mark Havitz of the recreation and leisure
studies department, on behalf of the Hagey Lecture
committee: "Cayley will introduce the lecture by documenting
the exponential growth of incarceration: 'During the last
generation the number of people imprisoned has expanded
dramatically throughout the Western world. The United States
today has four times as many people behind bars as it did in
1970; Canada's prisons are crowded beyond their capacity;
and even traditionally mild penal regimes like Norway or the
Netherlands have experienced substantial growth.'
    "His talk will explore briefly why this has occurred
and look at 'the disturbing fit between this emerging
penal/industrial complex and a post-modern social order that
has no place for a growing number of its citizens'.
    "Cayley will then speak to alternatives. 'It is widely
recognized that imprisonment is more likely to further de-
socialize offenders than correct them. Could society respond
to criminal behaviour in other ways? Looked at historically,
public prosecution of crime is a novelty. Before the modern
era of Western expansion, many societies knew different
conceptions of justice and practised different forms of
peace-making and conflict resolution. Some of these forms
are recurring today in a movement towards restorative,
rather than repressive criminal justice.'
    "His lecture 'will explore this new conception of
justice and contrast it with the penal regime that has
gradually taken shape in the West since the Middle Ages. It
will also give examples of successful decarceration from
around the world.'"
    Cayley will also conduct a student seminar on Thursday,
November 20, tentatively at 9:30 or 10:30 in the Student
Life Centre.
    Havitz notes: "Though the principal writer behind CBC
Radio's 'Ideas' featuring Lister Sinclair, Cayley is perhaps
best known for his 'In Conversation' book series: Northrop
Frye in Conversation, Ivan Illich in Conversation, and
George Grant in Conversation."
    Tickets for the lecture are available, free of charge,
from the Humanities box office or the faculty association
office. The lectures are jointly sponsored by the university
and the faculty association each year. They are a memorial
to UW's founding president, Dr. Gerry Hagey, and are
considered the university's premier lecture series, bringing
distinguished speakers from all disciplines, from both
Canada and abroad.