"A total institution may be defined as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and one example, mental hospitals, in particular."
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Erving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, Anchor Books. p. xxi; lead paragraph
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