1. BATCH LIVING: people
treated as if all the same, no
individuality
2. BINARY
MANAGMENT: staff and
residents (inmates) kept
seperate by 2 different
sets of rules
3. THE INMATE ROLE: on
admission person stripped of
past lives. Have a new identity
imposed on them that INST
has chosen for them
4. INSTITUTIONAL
PERSPECTIVE: the inst way of
life takes over and determines
residents (inmates) and staffs
experiences and perspectives.
Often via events designed to
forge sense of community
A total Inst is a
place of work
or living with
many people in
the same
situation, cut
off from wider
society, an
enclosed
formal way of
life
Russel Barton
1959
INSTITUTIONAL
NEUROSIS
institutional enviro itself can have a negative effect causing
apathy, submissivness and resignation to the situation
causes
loss contact with ourtside world
enforced idleness (wrd routine)
bossiness of staff
loss friends, possessions etc
ward atmosphere, e.g:
poor furniture, small
and dirt
when people experience
neglect and deprivation and a
poor physical enviro and
monotony of inst life they
become depressed and
unmotivated