Carolina Quotes[People-processing institutions are] a type of social institution in which human beings constitute both the raw materials and the products of organizational work. Although all social institutions are involved in some degree in people-processing activities, the term is properly restricted to those whose primary goal is the shaping, reshaping, removing, overhauling, retooling, reassembling, and recording the physical, psychological, social, legal, or moral aspects of human objects.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 163; as cited in: David Shichor (2005), The Meaning and Nature of Punishment. p. 107
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- Organization for treatment, 1966
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- 1966
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- p. 163
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