Institutionalised offenders : a study of the Victorian institution and its inmates, with special reference to late nineteenth century  Warwickshire
This study is concerned with the nature and function of institutional confinement in late Victorian society. It consists of an analysis of incarceration at the local level, focusing on the county asylum and prison of Warwickshire, based on case-history and administrative records. The first chapter sets prison and asylum detention within the broader pattern of confinement in Warwickshire, discussing whether a cohesive systemI of incarceration existed. Next is examined the key role played by county magistrates in the provision of public and private institutions and their reluctance to follow national policy to the letter. A study of inmate labour demonstrates that the principle of self-sufficiency allowed local authorities to economise, with a mitigating influence on the ideologies of 'moral treatment' and penitentiary punishment. The remaining chapters concern the inmates. Workhouse, prison and asylum entrants are compared with the source population of the County. Social isolation was a factor common to entrants to all three institutions, but asylum inmates included many who were far from destitute. The last two chapters extend the theme that asylums were not functioning as places for Victorian society to offload
Saunders, Janet Florence
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Institutionalised offenders : a study of the Victorian institution and its inmates, with special reference to late nineteenth century  Warwickshire. This study is concerned with the nature and function of institutional confinement in late Victorian society. It consists of an analysis of incarceration at the local level, focusing on the county asylum and prison of Warwickshire, based on case-history and administrative records. The first chapter sets prison and asylum detention within the broader pattern of confinement in Warwickshire, discussing whether a cohesive systemI of incarceration existed. Next is examined the key role played by county magistrates in the provision of public and private institutions and their reluctance to follow national policy to the letter. A study of inmate labour demonstrates that the principle of self-sufficiency allowed local authorities to economise, with a mitigating influence on the ideologies of 'moral treatment' and penitentiary punishment. The remaining chapters concern the inmates. Workhouse, prison and asylum entrants are compared with the source population of the County. Social isolation was a factor common to entrants to all three institutions, but asylum inmates included many who were far from destitute. The last two chapters extend the theme that asylums were not functioning as places for Victorian society to offload
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