Add to ORKGThe practice of separating the poor, the insane, and the criminal from society has existed for centuries. In the United States in the nineteenth century, the practice of institutionalization to cure mental illness produced inhumane conditions in insane asylums. Thanks in part to the efforts of social reformers, the asylum system has become obsolete. However, the practice of institutionalization is still practiced in the American penitentiary system. Using the autobiography of Clifford Beers, an asylum inpatient from 1900 until 1903, and a history of the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, I will draw comparisons between the asylum system and the penitentiary system in both ideology and practice. Just as separating the individual fro...
By the middle of the twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million America...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...
The practice of separating the poor, the insane, and the criminal from society has existed for centu...
The incarceration revolution of the late twentieth century fueled ongoing research on the relationsh...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
The incarceration revolution of the late twentieth century fueled ongoing research on the relationsh...
By the middle of the twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million America...
By the middle of the twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million America...
By the middle of the twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million America...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...
The practice of separating the poor, the insane, and the criminal from society has existed for centu...
The incarceration revolution of the late twentieth century fueled ongoing research on the relationsh...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
In 1972, I covertly entered a brutal, inhumane institution for the criminally insane in Eastern Nort...
The incarceration revolution of the late twentieth century fueled ongoing research on the relationsh...
By the middle of the twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million America...
By the middle of the twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million America...
By the middle of the twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million America...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...
The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research o...