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 Am...
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| Format: | eBook |
| 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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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Mental hospitals and the carceral state
- Unlocking the doors
- Flying the cuckoo's nest
- Custodialism reborn
- Cruel choices.