This is an optional module for postgraduate students studying on one of the following programmes in the School of Languages, Law and Social Sciences: MA in Criminology (TU321); MA in Social Care Leadership and Management (TU394), MA in Child, Family and Community Studies (TU392/TU391) and MA in Mentoring, Management & Leadership in the Early Years (TU393).
The module will examine the treatment by the state and society of those confined in care and custody in 20th Century Ireland. This will include the treatment of people in institutions such as psychiatric hospitals, Magdalene homes, Mother and Baby homes, borstal, reformatories, industrial schools and prisons. While each of these had different objectives, they tended to disproportionately contain the poor, the powerless, the vulnerable and marginalised in Irish society.
In institutions of care, research indicates that in many cases, there was a marked difference between the professed moral and noble intentions of those who ran these institutions and how people sent there experienced them. At times, social policy took on a penal tone. The module considers ways in which certain groups, or behaviours acquired labels, values and meanings which placed them outside of legitimacy and normality, justifying suspicion, social control and/or institutionalisation. Many people experienced the various forms of institutionalisation as punishment and/or as a means of social control.
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Setting the scene: Social policy in the new stateMorality and marginalisationLabelling, stigmatization and the social construction of devianceConfining ‘Madness’‘Fallen’ Women‘Wayward’ Youth‘Social’ PrisonersTranscarceration Deviance and social control: A comparative perspectiveThe ‘deviant’, the ‘conformist’, and the ‘need’ for social controlDealing with past: Commissions, Inquiries and ReportsMemory, remembering, public and social policy
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The module will be taught by lectures incorporating discussion of relevant literature, case studies, critical thinking exercises, VLE engagement and activities, and review of the readings on deviance, punishment and social control.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |