Prisons, asylums, and the public : institutional visiting in the nineteenth century /
"The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in let...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Establishment of Custodial Institutions and the Early Practice of Visiting
- 2. Open Doors: Welcoming the Public Into Prisons and Asylums
- 3. "You Must Go!" Visitors to Prisons and Asylums
- 4. I Am Even Afraid that She Put Her Tongue Out: Inmate and Patient Responses to Visitors
- 5. What We Saw with Our Own Eyes: Visiting and Nineteenth-Century Culture [19th century, Canada, United States]
- 6. To Avoid Exposure and Publicity: Opposition to Visiting
- 7. Behind Closed Doors: The Changing Relationship between Custodial Institutions and Society.