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Guelph
Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective
The rise of the prison as an institution of mass incarceration for offenders has for long fascinated researchers. In part, this is due to the unusually detailed nature of most prison records. The wide availability of somewhat similar sources across diverse European and European-derived societies provides criminologists, social and economic historians, demographers and other social scientists with rich collections of personal information that have been analysed intensively since the 1970s. The increasing power of software and hardware and the accumulation of very large quantities of prison data, some of it linked to other sources, offers challenges and opportunities for researchers today. The workshop responds to the challenge of harnessing criminal justice records by bringing together scholars in different disciplines and countries to share information about their sources, methodologies of classification and analysis, and to reconceptualize research paradigms.
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Paris
A new history of prisons and incarceration?
L'histoire des pratiques d'enfermement suscite actuellement un nouvel intérêt au niveau international. Longtemps concentrés, dans le sillage des travaux de Michel Foucault ou de Michelle Perrot, par exemple, à l'époque contemporaine, les travaux dans ce domaine s'interrogent aujourd'hui davantage sur les époques précédentes. Profitant des apports nombreux des historiographies anglaise et nord-américaine, hispanique, italienne ou germanophone, cette nouvelle histoire de l'enfermement s'élargit en outre vers d'autres pratiques qui dépassent la seule prison pénale. Ces premières journées, sous forme d’atelier, seront consacrées à un état de la recherche ; elles entendent constituer un jalon dans la formation projetée d’un réseau international centré sur l’étude des enfermements, plus particulièrement à l’époque moderne.
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