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Ideas on Institutions - analysing the literature on long-term care and custody (Hardcover)
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Ideas on Institutions - analysing the literature on long-term care and custody (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1984, Ideas on Institution is a review of the
major English-language literature of the past two decades on the
experience of living in institutions - hospitals, mental hospitals,
prisons. The survey opens with a consideration of the writings of
Erving Goffman, Michael Foucault, and Thomas Szasz. They shattered
the liberal consensus that the purpose of imprisonment was to
reform. Instead, their work argued that the purpose of prisons and
mental hospitals was social control, and that prisons created
criminals, and mental facilities created mental illness. Part II
looks at four British studies : Russell Barton's Institutional
Neurosis which suggested the existence of a new disease entity;
Peter Townsend's The Last Refuge, a study of old people in
residential care; The Morrisses' Pentonville, a study of a London
prison which became a classic in criminology; and Sans Everything,
a symposium which paved the way for a series of official hospital
enquiries in the 1970s. Part III examines David Rothman's two
historical studies on how and why the U.S. constructed
institutions, and how and why reform movements failed; N.N.
Kittrie's The Right to be Different, a wide-ranging attack on the
compulsory treatment of a variety of 'deviants', including the
mentally ill, juvenile delinquents and drug abusers; Cohen and
Taylor's Psychological survival, a disturbing analysis of the lives
of long-term prisoners in a maximum security wing; Zimbardo's
Stanford Prison Experiment on the malignant effects of prison
conditions on the personalities of both prisoners and their guards;
and King and Elliott's study of Albany Prison, showing how a
promising therapeutic experiment went wrong. This book will be of
interest to students of history, gerontology, sociology, social
policy, penology, psychology and political science.
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