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This chapter considers this intertwined history of the architecture of psychiatry and the architecture of incarceration. Since the establishment of the separate system of the Victorian penitentiary, which caused widespread insanity in its inmates, and its asylum counterpart, which imposed a brutal and uncompromising moral regime, the two institutions have shared a philosophy and aesthetic that are inseparable from their architecture and internal layout. Informed by a multi-disciplinary approach combining cultural studies of madness, the history of prisons, architectural theory and media, this chapter aims to deepen our understanding of the contribution that the changing physical environment makes to the pains of confinement and to public perceptions of prisons and mental institutions.
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Cross, S., Jewkes, Y. (2018). The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration. In: Mills, A., Kendall, K. (eds) Mental Health in Prisons. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94090-8_3
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