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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scull, Andrew, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1977.
Series:Spectrum book ; S-401.
Subjects:
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.