Bill Forsythe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1601719 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bill Forsythe |
| NOMBRES | Bill |
| APELLIDO | Forsythe |
| FIRMA | FORSYTHE B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Loneliness and Cellular Confinement in English Prisons 1878-1921
Journal Article Loneliness and Cellular Confinement in English Prisons 1878–1921 Get access Bill Forsythe Bill Forsythe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 5, September 2004, Pages 759–770, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh037 Published: 07 May 2004
The Victorian Ethical Foundations of Social Work in England--Continuity and Contradiction
In this article we argue that during the Victorian era certain ethical foundations of best practice were identified and were central to the work of particular individuals. We also argue that there was a strongly discriminatory moralistic basis to social policy and mainstream charitable intervention that militated against these ethical foundations. We suggest that this contradiction is replicated in New Labour's ‘Third Way’ and that we need to hee…
Suffering, Faith and Penitence Amongst British Prisoners 1835 to 1860
This article discusses suffering amongst some British prisoners prior to and post their imprisonment between 1835 and 1860. Those who revealed their suffering to officials tended to disclose this in the context of the evangelical Christian prison mission which was a dominant motif of prison discipline at this time. Clear themes of suffering emerged from their self disclosures, which prisoners themselves set in the context of a spiritual struggle …
Migration, family structure and pauper lunacy in Victorian England
The lunatic asylum remains one of the most remarkable institutional monuments of the modern world, dominating the social landscape of Victorian Britain and exercising a powerful attraction for social historians of medicine, an attraction almost as great as the spectre of the madhouse for contemporary novelists. Our image of the Victorian asylum is still pervaded to a surprising degree by the gloomy spectacle of the total institution presented by …
A Proper Lunatic for Two Years
Joseph Melling, Richard Adair, Bill Forsythe; “A Proper Lunatic for Two Years ”: Pauper Lunatic Children in Victorian and Edwardian England. Child Admissio
The New Poor Law and the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum--The Devon Experience 1834-1884
In this article we examine the impact of the policies and practices of the Guardians of the New Poor Law Unions on the management of pauper lunatics in four Devon Poor Law Unions in the critical period 1834-84. The central role of the Victorian Poor Law in provision made for the insane has only recently been recognized in the research literature. Scholars have been much more concerned with the activities of professionalizing physicians and the ge…
The Garland Thesis and the Origins of Modern English Prison Discipline
In this article David Garland's (1985) seminal work Punishment and Welfare is discussed in relation to English prisons between the above dates. I suggest a rebuttal of Garland's critique of Michel Foucault's (1979) earlier work on 19th century penal developments because this critique is a foundation stone of Garland's general thesis about the origins of modern penality. Secondly it is argued that Garland took insufficient account of the influence…
Women Prisoners and Women Penal Officials 1840–1921
This article is about three aspects of prison discipline relating to women between 1840 and 1921. Firstly, important arguments advanced by Dobash, Dobash, and Gutteridge (1986) and Zedner (1991) are discussed. I suggest that Dobash et al. were mistaken in their view that women were more intensively punished for prison indiscipline than men in order more effectively to condition them to stereotyped gender roles. Zedner's notion of a distinctive fe…
Centralisation and Local Autonomy
This article examines English prisons in the light of debates among historians about centralisation in the nineteenth century. The author argues that central state influence over prisons grew substantially from the 1830s onwards and that this was in line with the general view of administrative change advanced by such diverse writers as David Roberts and Philip Corrigan. However, the establishment of a central command structure under the 1877 Pris…
Foucault's Carceral and Ignatieff's Pentonville—English prisons and the revisionist analysis of control and penality
During the 1970s the work of Michel Foucault and Michael Ignatieff challenged the earlier somewhat optimistic general analysis of French and British penality during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Their accounts constituted a major revision of this subject and in the early 1980s there was a counter revisionist critique of their work in which it was argued that Foucault and Ignatieff had made substantial errors of fact and judg…
Mental & Social Diagnosis and the English Prison Commission 1914–1939
In this article the author argues that there was a strengthening optimism about the value of psychological treatment between 1914 and 1939 amongst medical personnel employed by the English Prison Commission. This optimism contrasted with the pessimistic eugenic notion that there was an increasing and unreformable underclass which transmitted its inferior mental and physical characteristics biologically. Prison Commission medical staff became open…
Prisons and Panopticons
This article concerns a number of aspects of the history of social policy during the nineteenth century. In particular it argues that the five stage model of development proposed by Dr Oliver MacDonagh in 1958 has been somewhat too peremptorily dismissed by historians, and it uses the prison system between 1777 and 1877 as a test of each stage of the model as far as this part of the social administrative system is concerned. In addition MacDonagh…
The Aims and Methods of the Separate System
The New Poor Law and the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum--The Devon Experience 1834-1884
In this article we examine the impact of the policies and practices of the Guardians of the New Poor Law Unions on the management of pauper lunatics in four Devon Poor Law Unions in the critical period 1834-84. The central role of the Victorian Poor Law in provision made for the insane has only recently been recognized in the research literature. Scholars have been much more concerned with the activities of professionalizing physicians and the ge…
Centralisation and Local Autonomy
This article examines English prisons in the light of debates among historians about centralisation in the nineteenth century. The author argues that central state influence over prisons grew substantially from the 1830s onwards and that this was in line with the general view of administrative change advanced by such diverse writers as David Roberts and Philip Corrigan. However, the establishment of a central command structure under the 1877 Pris…
Women Prisoners and Women Penal Officials 1840–1921
This article is about three aspects of prison discipline relating to women between 1840 and 1921. Firstly, important arguments advanced by Dobash, Dobash, and Gutteridge (1986) and Zedner (1991) are discussed. I suggest that Dobash et al. were mistaken in their view that women were more intensively punished for prison indiscipline than men in order more effectively to condition them to stereotyped gender roles. Zedner's notion of a distinctive fe…
The Victorian Ethical Foundations of Social Work in England--Continuity and Contradiction
In this article we argue that during the Victorian era certain ethical foundations of best practice were identified and were central to the work of particular individuals. We also argue that there was a strongly discriminatory moralistic basis to social policy and mainstream charitable intervention that militated against these ethical foundations. We suggest that this contradiction is replicated in New Labour's ‘Third Way’ and that we need to hee…
Foucault's Carceral and Ignatieff's Pentonville—English prisons and the revisionist analysis of control and penality
During the 1970s the work of Michel Foucault and Michael Ignatieff challenged the earlier somewhat optimistic general analysis of French and British penality during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Their accounts constituted a major revision of this subject and in the early 1980s there was a counter revisionist critique of their work in which it was argued that Foucault and Ignatieff had made substantial errors of fact and judg…
Prisons and Panopticons
This article concerns a number of aspects of the history of social policy during the nineteenth century. In particular it argues that the five stage model of development proposed by Dr Oliver MacDonagh in 1958 has been somewhat too peremptorily dismissed by historians, and it uses the prison system between 1777 and 1877 as a test of each stage of the model as far as this part of the social administrative system is concerned. In addition MacDonagh…
Loneliness and Cellular Confinement in English Prisons 1878-1921
Journal Article Loneliness and Cellular Confinement in English Prisons 1878–1921 Get access Bill Forsythe Bill Forsythe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 5, September 2004, Pages 759–770, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh037 Published: 07 May 2004
Migration, family structure and pauper lunacy in Victorian England
The lunatic asylum remains one of the most remarkable institutional monuments of the modern world, dominating the social landscape of Victorian Britain and exercising a powerful attraction for social historians of medicine, an attraction almost as great as the spectre of the madhouse for contemporary novelists. Our image of the Victorian asylum is still pervaded to a surprising degree by the gloomy spectacle of the total institution presented by …
Mental & Social Diagnosis and the English Prison Commission 1914–1939
In this article the author argues that there was a strengthening optimism about the value of psychological treatment between 1914 and 1939 amongst medical personnel employed by the English Prison Commission. This optimism contrasted with the pessimistic eugenic notion that there was an increasing and unreformable underclass which transmitted its inferior mental and physical characteristics biologically. Prison Commission medical staff became open…
The Aims and Methods of the Separate System
Prisons and Panopticons
This article concerns a number of aspects of the history of social policy during the nineteenth century. In particular it argues that the five stage model of development proposed by Dr Oliver MacDonagh in 1958 has been somewhat too peremptorily dismissed by historians, and it uses the prison system between 1777 and 1877 as a test of each stage of the model as far as this part of the social administrative system is concerned. In addition MacDonagh…
Foucault's Carceral and Ignatieff's Pentonville—English prisons and the revisionist analysis of control and penality
During the 1970s the work of Michel Foucault and Michael Ignatieff challenged the earlier somewhat optimistic general analysis of French and British penality during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Their accounts constituted a major revision of this subject and in the early 1980s there was a counter revisionist critique of their work in which it was argued that Foucault and Ignatieff had made substantial errors of fact and judg…
Mental & Social Diagnosis and the English Prison Commission 1914–1939
In this article the author argues that there was a strengthening optimism about the value of psychological treatment between 1914 and 1939 amongst medical personnel employed by the English Prison Commission. This optimism contrasted with the pessimistic eugenic notion that there was an increasing and unreformable underclass which transmitted its inferior mental and physical characteristics biologically. Prison Commission medical staff became open…
Centralisation and Local Autonomy
This article examines English prisons in the light of debates among historians about centralisation in the nineteenth century. The author argues that central state influence over prisons grew substantially from the 1830s onwards and that this was in line with the general view of administrative change advanced by such diverse writers as David Roberts and Philip Corrigan. However, the establishment of a central command structure under the 1877 Pris…
Women Prisoners and Women Penal Officials 1840–1921
This article is about three aspects of prison discipline relating to women between 1840 and 1921. Firstly, important arguments advanced by Dobash, Dobash, and Gutteridge (1986) and Zedner (1991) are discussed. I suggest that Dobash et al. were mistaken in their view that women were more intensively punished for prison indiscipline than men in order more effectively to condition them to stereotyped gender roles. Zedner's notion of a distinctive fe…
The Garland Thesis and the Origins of Modern English Prison Discipline
In this article David Garland's (1985) seminal work Punishment and Welfare is discussed in relation to English prisons between the above dates. I suggest a rebuttal of Garland's critique of Michel Foucault's (1979) earlier work on 19th century penal developments because this critique is a foundation stone of Garland's general thesis about the origins of modern penality. Secondly it is argued that Garland took insufficient account of the influence…
The New Poor Law and the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum--The Devon Experience 1834-1884
In this article we examine the impact of the policies and practices of the Guardians of the New Poor Law Unions on the management of pauper lunatics in four Devon Poor Law Unions in the critical period 1834-84. The central role of the Victorian Poor Law in provision made for the insane has only recently been recognized in the research literature. Scholars have been much more concerned with the activities of professionalizing physicians and the ge…
Migration, family structure and pauper lunacy in Victorian England
The lunatic asylum remains one of the most remarkable institutional monuments of the modern world, dominating the social landscape of Victorian Britain and exercising a powerful attraction for social historians of medicine, an attraction almost as great as the spectre of the madhouse for contemporary novelists. Our image of the Victorian asylum is still pervaded to a surprising degree by the gloomy spectacle of the total institution presented by …
A Proper Lunatic for Two Years
Joseph Melling, Richard Adair, Bill Forsythe; “A Proper Lunatic for Two Years ”: Pauper Lunatic Children in Victorian and Edwardian England. Child Admissio
Suffering, Faith and Penitence Amongst British Prisoners 1835 to 1860
This article discusses suffering amongst some British prisoners prior to and post their imprisonment between 1835 and 1860. Those who revealed their suffering to officials tended to disclose this in the context of the evangelical Christian prison mission which was a dominant motif of prison discipline at this time. Clear themes of suffering emerged from their self disclosures, which prisoners themselves set in the context of a spiritual struggle …
The Victorian Ethical Foundations of Social Work in England--Continuity and Contradiction
In this article we argue that during the Victorian era certain ethical foundations of best practice were identified and were central to the work of particular individuals. We also argue that there was a strongly discriminatory moralistic basis to social policy and mainstream charitable intervention that militated against these ethical foundations. We suggest that this contradiction is replicated in New Labour's ‘Third Way’ and that we need to hee…
Loneliness and Cellular Confinement in English Prisons 1878-1921
Journal Article Loneliness and Cellular Confinement in English Prisons 1878–1921 Get access Bill Forsythe Bill Forsythe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 5, September 2004, Pages 759–770, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh037 Published: 07 May 2004
Political science (12 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (9 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (9 obras) · Criminology (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Prison (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · History (4 obras)