Decarceration : community treatment and the deviant : a radical view /
"Are early release programs, community rehabilitation centers, and halfway houses effective in treating criminals and the mentally ill? Or are such programs a danger to society and to the deviants themselves?"--Cover.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall,
©1977.
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| Series: | Spectrum book ;
S-401. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Deviance and the dynamics of control
- Capitalism and the modern social control apparatus
- The decarceration of the bad : criminals and delinquents
- The demise of the asylum : decarcerating the mad
- Conventional explanations for decarceration. The "technological fix"? Psychoactive drugs and community treatment
- Social science and social policy : the critique of the total institution
- Social control and welfare capitalism. Structural sources of the failure of the nineteenth century decarceration movement
- "Success" in the twentieth century : welfare capitalism and the changing exigencies of domestic pacification and control.