Beyond the total institution: an ethnographic report

The following description of recidivistic ex-inmates is drawn from an ongoing participant observational study of unemployed seamen living in several sailors' taverns on the waterfront of a European port. Data was collected during seven month of research in this area and five months of research...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seltzer, Michael
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University 1973
Subjects:
Institutional environment
Mental hospital
Seamen
Tavern
Ethnographic report
Institutions
Institutional behavior
Descharged inmates
Ex-inmate
Former inmate
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1660
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Summary:The following description of recidivistic ex-inmates is drawn from an ongoing participant observational study of unemployed seamen living in several sailors' taverns on the waterfront of a European port. Data was collected during seven month of research in this area and five months of research aboard a cargo vessel in the North Atlantic.

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