Bibliograph

From asylum to prison, deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945, Anne E. Parsons

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From asylum to prison, deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945, Anne E. Parsons

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-208) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From asylum to prison

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1028583418

Responsibility statement

Anne E. Parsons

Series statement

Justice, power, and politics

Sub title

deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945

Summary

"Prisons and asylums developed in parallel in the United States as institutions dedicated to the quarantine, detention, and punishment of the socially marginal. A widely accepted popular narrative holds that deinstitutionalization from the 1950s to the 1990s diminished the role of asylums in America. Yet, as Anne E. Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die--in fact, many of its structures have been transformed into prisons, just as prisons have shifted to locking up those who in an earlier era would have been sent to an asylum"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Mental hospitals and the carceral state -- Unlocking the doors -- Flying the cuckoo's nest -- Custodialism reborn -- Cruel choices

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