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Redistributing the poor : jails, hospitals, and the crisis of law and fiscal austerity /

"This book argues that we have drastically misunderstood the changes taking place in our nation's largest jails and public hospitals. And more generally, the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the 21st century. It is widely believed that because we as a society have divest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lara-Millán, Armando (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Jails > United States > Administration.
Prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Public hospitals > United States > Finance.
Poor > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Social control > United States.
Fiscal policy > United States.
Prison administration > United States.
Prisons > Administration > États-Unis.
Prisonniers > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Hôpitaux publics > États-Unis > Finances.
Contrôle social > États-Unis.
Politique fiscale > États-Unis.
Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS.
Social Services & Welfare.
Public Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Fiscal policy
Jails > Administration
Poor > Social conditions
Prisoners > Social conditions
Public hospitals > Finance
Social control
United States
2000-2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: The Expansion of Medicine in Large Urban Jail
  • Chapter 1: Summoning the Sick and Violent to Jail
  • Chapter 2: The Medicalization of the Los Angeles County Jail System, 1978-2015
  • Part Two: The Restriction of Medicine in Large Public Hospitals
  • Chapter 3: Opioids, Observation, and Restricting Access in the Public Emergency Room
  • Chapter 4: Building a Public Hospital That Everyone Knows is Too Small
  • Conclusion: Towards the Administrative Disappearing of Social Suffering
  • Appendix: Historically Embedded Ethnography.