Janet Miron

Prisons, Asylums, and the Public

Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Finding that institutions could be important centres of civic activity, self-edification, and 'scientific' study, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780802095138
• ISBN-10: 0802095135
• Artikelnr.: 28524071

Autorenporträt

By Janet Miron

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1.The Establishment of Custodial Institutions and the Early Practice of
Visiting
2.Open Doors: Welcoming the Public Into Prisons and Asylums
3."You Must Go!" Visitors to Prisons and Asylums
4.I Am Even Afraid that She Put Her Tongue Out: Inmate and Patient
Responses to Visitors
5.What We Saw with Our Own Eyes: Visiting and Nineteenth-Century Culture
6.To Avoid Exposure and Publicity: Opposition to Visiting
7.Behind Closed Doors: The Changing Relationship between Custodial
Institutions and Society
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography