From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945
(Part of the Justice, Power, and Politics Series)
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To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1469640635
ISBN13:9781469640631
Release Date:October 2018
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 7.8" x 9.5"
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