Abstract
Revelations about cruel or neglectful treatment of the elderly in a tiny minority of residential homes, in both the public and the private sector, continue to be made with depressing regularity. Typically, the media’s response is to seek out individuals to blame for these abuses, and to personalise what has happened in strongly-worded attacks on the activities of named persons.
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Goffman, E. (1961) Asylums ( Doubleday; Pelican, 1968).
Haney, C., Banks, C. and Zimbardo, P. (1973) A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison. Reprinted in D. Potter, Society and the Social Sciences (RKP, 1981).
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). The Breeding of Abuse. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_18
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