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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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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Table of Contents:
- Mental hospitals and the carceral state
- Unlocking the doors
- Flying the cuckoo's nest
- Custodialism reborn
- Cruel choices.