NCJ Number
171744
Editor(s)
N Finzsch,
R Jutte
Date Published
1996
Length
378 pages
Annotation
This is an interdisciplinary study of the development of hospitals, asylums and prisons in America and Europe from 1500 to 1950.
Abstract
The book contains articles by 18 contributors, from six countries, with backgrounds in history, sociology, criminology and public health. The articles discuss, among other topics: (1) historical theories of confinement; (2) four centuries of prison history; (3) histories of American and European hospitals and methodological perspectives in those histories; (4) madhouses, children's wards and clinics; (5) pietist universal reform and care of the sick and poor, the medical institutions of the Francke Foundations and their social context; (6) Michel Foucault's impact on the German historiography of criminal justice, social discipline, and medicalization; (7) the American and the German Juvenile Court; (8) the medicalization of criminal law reform in Imperial Germany; (9) prison reform in 19th century Europe; (10) the Casa di Correzione of San Michele a Ripa in Rome; and (11) the history and possible future of solitary confinement in Germany. Notes, tables, figures, index