Atlas Trail
How Society Controls: Institutions, Panics and Prisons
A path through this wave's new pages: how Erving Goffman's total institution and Donald Clemmer's prisonization describe the closed world of a prison, how Stanley Cohen's moral panic explains a society's own overreactions such as the satanic panic, and how two working institutions, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, put those ideas into practice.
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Foundational Concepts
Erving Goffman's total institution: one authority governing every hour of an enclosed life.
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Foundational Concepts
Donald Clemmer's prisonization: how confinement inside that authority reshapes an inmate's own culture.
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Foundational Concepts
Stanley Cohen's moral panic: how the wider society, not just the institution, can overreact to a perceived threat.
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Foundational Concepts
The satanic panic of the 1980s and 1990s, the wave's own worked example of a moral panic in the criminal justice system.
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Criminal Justice Institutions
The Federal Bureau of Prisons, the institution actually running the total institutions the first stop described.
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Criminal Justice Institutions
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, working the same crime-victim ground from the protection side rather than the punishment side.
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