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Book Mettray

Download or read book Mettray written by Matthew Davenport Hill and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mettray  from 1839 to 1856

Download or read book Mettray from 1839 to 1856 written by Mettray and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mettray

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  • Author : Stephen A. Toth
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-15
  • ISBN : 1501740377
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Mettray written by Stephen A. Toth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation's carceral system. Drawing on insights from sociology, criminology, critical theory, and social history, Stephen Toth dissects Mettray's social anatomy, exploring inmates' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and Toth situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France. Mettray demonstrates that the colony was an ill-conceived project marked by internal contradictions. Its social order was one of subjection and subversion, as officials struggled for order and inmates struggled for autonomy. Toth's formidable archival work exposes the nature of the relationships between, and among, prisoners and administrators. He explores the daily grind of existence: living conditions, discipline, labor, sex, and violence. Thus, he gives voice to the incarcerated, not simply to the incarcerators, whose ideas and agendas tend to dominate the historical record. Mettray is, above all else, a deeply personal illumination of life inside France's most venerated carceral institution.

Book Colonie de Mettray

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  • Author : Alme LEPELLETIER (de la Sarthe.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1856
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Colonie de Mettray written by Alme LEPELLETIER (de la Sarthe.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mettray  Report on the system and arrangements of    La Colonie Agricole    at Mettray     Second edition  revised   By S  Turner and T  Paynter

Download or read book Mettray Report on the system and arrangements of La Colonie Agricole at Mettray Second edition revised By S Turner and T Paynter written by Philanthropic Society (London, England). and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Visit to Mettray in 1845

Download or read book My Visit to Mettray in 1845 written by Willem Hendrik Suringar and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Prison Association of New York

Download or read book Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Prison Association of New York written by Prison Association of New York and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Domestic Colonies

Download or read book Domestic Colonies written by Barbara Arneil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people. This book argues that through the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth centuries, thousands of domestic colonies were proposed and/or created by governments and civil society organizations for fellow citizens as opposed to foreigners and within their own borders rather than overseas. Such colonies sought to solve every social problem arising within industrializing and urbanizing states. Domestic Colonies argues that colonization ought to be seen during this period as a domestic policy designed to solve social problems at home as well as foreign policy designed to expand imperial power. Three kind of domestic colonies are analysed in this book: labour colonies for the idle poor, farm colonies for the mentally ill and disabled, and utopian colonies for racial, religious, and political minorities. All of them were justified by an ideology of colonialism that argued if people were segregated in colonies located on empty land and engaged in agrarian labour, this would improve both the people and the land. Key domestic colonialists analysed in this book include Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Kropotkin, Robert Owen, and Booker T. Washington. The turn inward to colony thus requires us to rethink the meaning and scope of colonization and colonialism in modern political theory and practice.

Book Reassessing Foucault

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  • Author : Colin Jones
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-01-04
  • ISBN : 1134671547
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Reassessing Foucault written by Colin Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body. The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences.

Book Punishment and Culture

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  • Author : Philip Smith
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-03-15
  • ISBN : 0226766101
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Punishment and Culture written by Philip Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Smith attacks the comfortable notion that punishment is about justice, reason and law. Instead, he argues that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process.

Book Discipline and Punish

Download or read book Discipline and Punish written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Book Disturbing Attachments

Download or read book Disturbing Attachments written by Kadji Amin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Genet (1910–1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent of the police state, and an ally of revolutionary anticolonial movements. In Disturbing Attachments, Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory. Pederasty, which was central to Genet's sexuality and to his passionate cross-racial and transnational political activism late in life, is among a series of problematic and outmoded queer attachments that Amin uses to deidealize and historicize queer theory. He brings the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing. Disturbing Attachments productively and provocatively unsettles queer studies by excavating the history of its affective tendencies to reveal and ultimately expand the contexts that inform the use and connotations of the term queer.

Book Jean Genet

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  • Author : Stephen Barber
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2005-03-01
  • ISBN : 1861895933
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Jean Genet written by Stephen Barber and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this concise biography of the French writer and his work cuts directly to the intersection of thought and life that was essential to Genet's creativity. Arguing that Genet's life was an extraordinary spectacle in which the themes of his most revolutionary works were played out, Stephen Barber gives both the work and its singular inspiration in Genet's life their full due. Abandoned, arrested, and repeatedly incarcerated, Genet, who died in 1986, led a life that could best be described as a tour of the underworld of the twentieth century. Similarly, Genet's work is recognized by its nearly obsessive and often savage treatment of certain recurring themes. Sex, desire, death, oppression, domination-these ideas, central to Genet's artistic project, can be seen as preoccupations that arose directly from the artist's travels, imprisonments, sexual and emotional relationships, and political engagements and protests. This trenchant volume focuses directly on the moments in Genet's life in which those preoccupations are vividly projected in his novels, theater works, and film projects. Genet's works have been hugely influential for a vast array of writers, filmmakers, choreographers, and directors, especially at moments of social crisis; thus Genet's life is not only at the root of his own work but also that of many important artists of the twentieth century. With its frank and illuminating introduction by Edmund White, Jean Genet gives readers access to this brilliant and brutal mind.

Book Nineteenth Century Crime and Punishment

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Crime and Punishment written by Victor Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). The first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the role of the criminal courts, the rise and fall of crime, the causes of crime as understood by contemporary investigators, the police ways of ‘knowing the criminal,’ the role of ‘moral panics,’ and the definition of the ‘criminal classes’ and ‘habitual offenders’. The final two volumes explore means of punishment and look at the shift from public and bodily punishments to transportation, the rise of the penitentiary, the convict prison system, and the late-century decline in the prison population and loss of faith in the prison.

Book Report on the International Penitentiary Congress of London

Download or read book Report on the International Penitentiary Congress of London written by Enoch Cobb Wines and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: