Disorder Contained
Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 – 1900
Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83455-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83455-1 (ISBN)
A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners' experiences of mental breakdown.
Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival and printed sources, the authors explore the links between different prison regimes and mental distress, examining the challenges faced by prison medical officers dealing with mental disorder within a system that stressed discipline and punishment and prisoners' own experiences of mental illness. The book investigates medical officers' approaches to the identification, definition, management and categorisation of mental disorder in prisons, and varied, often gendered, responses to mental breakdown among inmates. The authors also reflect on the persistence of systems of punishment that often aggravate rather than alleviate mental illness in the criminal justice system up to the current day. This title is also available as Open Access.
Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival and printed sources, the authors explore the links between different prison regimes and mental distress, examining the challenges faced by prison medical officers dealing with mental disorder within a system that stressed discipline and punishment and prisoners' own experiences of mental illness. The book investigates medical officers' approaches to the identification, definition, management and categorisation of mental disorder in prisons, and varied, often gendered, responses to mental breakdown among inmates. The authors also reflect on the persistence of systems of punishment that often aggravate rather than alleviate mental illness in the criminal justice system up to the current day. This title is also available as Open Access.
1. Introduction: Mental disorder and the modern prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900; 2. The making of the modern prison system: reformation, separation and the mind, 1840-1860; 3. The prison medical officer: Deterrence, dual loyalty and the production of psychiatric expertise, 1860-1895; 4. Criminal or lunatic, prisoner of patient?: Confining insanity in the late nineteenth century; 5. 'He puts on symptoms of incoherence': Feigning and detecting insanity in nineteenth-century prisons; 6. Conclusion: The decline of the separate system, the prisoner patient and enduring legacies; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 167 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-83455-8 / 1108834558 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-83455-1 / 9781108834551 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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