20 3Description d'une formation en milieu carcéral innovante: l'unité de preparation à la sortie de la Maison d'Arrêt de Strasbourg 
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Análise Psicológica

 ISSN 0870-8231

COLIN, Patrick. Approche historique et sociologique du milieu carcéral en France: comment comprendre les difficultés d'ouverture de la politique pénitentiaire française (1789-1945). []. , 20, 3, pp.297-306. ISSN 0870-8231.

Since early 19th century, the historic and sociologic approaches to prison environment in France allow us to better understand the opening difficulties of French prison policy at the end of the 20th century. During the first half of the 19th century, prison society prepared a succession of reforms that allowed choosing the best prison system. Confinement imprisonment and amendment of criminals by work was the policy believed to be more effective. From 1850 to 1945, prison policy took a repressive orientation. Prison reforms, which are proposed by the prisons society, are not applied: lack of rebuilding of new prisons, failure of «all confinement», omnipresence of employers. The consensus of the majority of the French criminologists around lombrosians or lacassians biologic approaches favours the practice of criminal colonization: the criminal is beyond redemption. We must wait until 1945 to see again amendment and rehabilitation as central issues in French prison policy.

: Prison environment; prison policy; rehabilitation.

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