1. Prisons & Asylums

2. Reading
Valentine Ch 5 pp

3. Valentine Referring to the UK prison system
UK, USA, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Russia have large prison populations
why?

4. Asylums, Prisons
Socially-constructed places
not inevitable

5. Crime
a social construction?
aggravated by poverty, social stress?

6. UK c. 1700
Crime rampant
Severe & capital punishment for minor offences
lots of hangings

7. UK c. 1750
Crime rampant
Reduce hangings by transporting criminals to penal colonies abroad
America
Australia

8. UK c. 1850 Policing becoming effective Transportation ceases
Confine criminals to a new type of “reformatory” prison

10. Prison Inmates generate their own institutions trade in contraband
social hierarchies

11. Prison Disciplinary regime imposed on the body physical confinement
imposed dietary regime
uniforms

12. Prison Prison guards develop their own regimes of rules
condoning/colluding in contraband trade
prison gangs allow divide & rule strategies

13. Prison
Inmates & staff
alliances
conflics
collusions

14. Bentham’s Panopticon
Designed for easy surveillance of prisoners

16. Asylum Segregated the mentally-ill and the socially deviant
Within the walls
Away from society

18. Asylum Idea of locating asylums in therapeutic settings rural
careful landscaping and architectural planning

21. Augusta Co Virginia

24. Asylum Warehoused the mentally-ill Engaged them in treatment regimes
institutionalizing them as permanent patients

27. Asylum
Expectations of docility
discipline unruly patients

28. Asylum
Become places symbolic of insanity

31. Asylum mental illness as a social construction
social stress medicalised as madness?
But not just a social construction

32. Prisons, Asylums Places, environments
designed for containment, punishment, reform, therapy
Condition a wider social environment
produce deterrence, fear, obedience
remove the deviant from society