Discipline Without Frontiers? Representations of the Mettray Reformatory Colony in Britain, 1840-1880

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4949705
AutoresFelix Driver (0000-0003-0318-4282)
Ano1990
Volume3
Fascículo3
Páginas272-293
Data de publicação1990-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6443.1990.tb00151.x
OpenAlexW2047410109
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26

The agricultural colony founded at Mettray, France, in 1839 rapidly acquired an international reputation as an exemplar of the 'family system' of moral training, in which inmates were dispersed into separate 'houses' rather than being concentrated in large buildings. Many foreign visitors portrayed Mettray as a place where the fruits of the new reformatory science had been realised in practice. The paper aims to show how the Mettray model came to play a critical role within debates over the treatment of criminal children and juvenile paupers in Britain between 1840 and 1880

Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Criminology · Juvenile · Political science · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Ecology · History · Law