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From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945 /

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....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parsons, Anne E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > United States.
Mentally ill offenders > United States.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Detention of persons > United States.
Asylums > United States > History.
Imprisonment > United States > History.
Prisons > United States > History.
Marginality, Social > United States.

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