TY  - BOOK
AU  - Toth,Stephen A.
TI  - Mettray: A History of France's Most Venerated Carceral Institution 
SN  - 9781501740190
AV  - HV9156.M61 T68 2020
U1  - 365.42094454 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Juvenile corrections
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile delinquents
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Juvenile detention homes
KW  - Problem children
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Reformatories
KW  - Criminology
KW  - West European History
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - agricultural colonies, prisoners, social control, 19th century, 20th century, France
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Origins --; 2. Regime --; 3. Resistance --; 4. Discord --; 5. Maison Paternelle --; 6. Denouement --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation's carceral system.Drawing on insights from sociology, criminology, critical theory, and social history, Stephen Toth dissects Mettray's social anatomy, exploring inmates' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and Toth situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France. Mettray demonstrates that the colony was an ill-conceived project marked by internal contradictions. Its social order was one of subjection and subversion, as officials struggled for order and inmates struggled for autonomy.Toth's formidable archival work exposes the nature of the relationships between, and among, prisoners and administrators. He explores the daily grind of existence: living conditions, discipline, labor, sex, and violence. Thus, he gives voice to the incarcerated, not simply to the incarcerators, whose ideas and agendas tend to dominate the historical record. Mettray is, above all else, a deeply personal illumination of life inside France's most venerated carceral institution
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501740190?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501740190
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