LST1PDC From Prisons to Detention Centres- containment is a global phenomenon

This research essay will assess your understanding of the nature, significance, and implications of modern containment as a global phenomenon. It will also evaluate your capacity to critically engage with key issues relating to modern containment as explored in PDC.

 

Choose one of the following questions to respond to:

1. Today, modern containment is a global phenomenon. What role has colonisation played in the globalisation of modern containment? Discuss the lasting impacts.

2. Has youth containment changed over time? Consider the historical case of Winlaton Youth Training Centre, and the contemporary example of Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in your response.

3. “Resistance is a significant part of First Nations people’s experiences of containment in Australia.” Discuss this statement with reference to at least one example.

4. What role did gender play in the lunatic asylum system and the containment of people perceived to be mentally ill?

5. Focusing on ONE of the case studies below, answer the following question: How and to what extent might your chosen case study be considered a ‘total institution’, according to Goffman?

a. Asylums and mental hospitals; or
b. Reformatories and youth detention; or
c. Internment of civilians in Australia during WW1 and WW2, or
d. Migration and immigration detention.