Les pénitenciers bordelais pour enfants. 1838-1870

• Main Author: Allemandou, Bernard (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Pessac Maison des Sciences de l'homme d'Aquitaine 2021
• Series: PrimaLun@ 10
• Subjects: History; Psychology; confinement; prison; reformatory; asylum; children's prison; vocational school; penitentiary; St. John's penitentiary; St. Philomena's penitentiary; agricultural penitentiary; social policy; delinquency; prostitution; theft; delinquent children; abandoned children; prostitutes; young people; detainees; incarceration; illiteracy; misery; poverty; illnesses; education; work; charity; religious community; charitable organisation; Gironde; Bordeaux
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Author of two monographs on the care of abandoned children in Bordeaux published by the MSHA, Bernard Allemandou, child psychiatrist, focuses here on the fate of poor children who commit crimes. The Saint-Jean penitentiary, created in 1837 for minor boys, and the Sainte-Philomène penitentiary the f...