Rethinking the Carceral through an Institutional Lens: On prisons and asylums in the United States

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Bernard E. Harcourt, « Rethinking the Carceral through an Institutional Lens: On prisons and asylums in the United States », Champ pénal/Penal field, ID : 10.4000/champpenal.7563


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Introduction The classic texts of social theory tell a consistent story not only about the rise and (in some cases) fall of discrete carceral institutions, but also of the remarkable continuity of confinement and social exclusion.  This pattern is reflected in the writings of Erving Goffman on Asylums (1961), Gerald Grob on The State and the Mentally Ill (1966), David Rothman on The Discovery of the Asylum (1971), and Michel Foucault (1961). In Madness and Civilization, Foucault traces the co...

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