Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986

Since the penal code of 1810 (section 64) and the 1838 bill on insane persons, psychiatry and prison followed two parallel historical paths : the psychiatrist, being an expert, came in prison only to identify insane and to take him out of jail. Non-insane, half-insane, mentally disabled but also all...

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Main Author: Hélène Bellanger
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Published: Criminocorpus 2014-12-01
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description Since the penal code of 1810 (section 64) and the 1838 bill on insane persons, psychiatry and prison followed two parallel historical paths : the psychiatrist, being an expert, came in prison only to identify insane and to take him out of jail. Non-insane, half-insane, mentally disabled but also all those disturbing prison order were treated solely according to penitentiary discipline. After the historical break of Second World War, a spirally reform process gradually sealed the historical convergency of prison and asylum, and led to the creation of structures dedicated to psychiatric treatment of prisonners (psychiatric annexes created by Amor reform, followed by the CMPR and SMPR). The institutionalization of psychiatric intervention in prison spred out in more than forty years. In a background of shortages, through failures and experimenting, following various patterns, several generations of practioners, judges and penitentiary officers designed through practice a new frame for sanitary intervention in prison that became a place for medical care.
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Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986
Criminocorpus
expertises psychiatriques
Lacassagne (Alexandre)
psychiatrie
pathologie mentale
histoire des prisons
individualisation de la peine
title Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986
title_full Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986
title_fullStr Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986
title_full_unstemmed Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986
title_short Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986
title_sort politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945 1986
topic expertises psychiatriques
Lacassagne (Alexandre)
psychiatrie
pathologie mentale
histoire des prisons
individualisation de la peine
url https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/2730
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