From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945 / Anne E. Parsons.
2018
KF3828 .P375 2018 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945 / Anne E. Parsons.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Description
221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series
Justice, power, and politics.
Formatted Contents Note
Mental hospitals and the carceral state
Unlocking the doors
Flying the cuckoo's nest
Custodialism reborn
Cruel choices.
Unlocking the doors
Flying the cuckoo's nest
Custodialism reborn
Cruel choices.
Summary
"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. Yet, as Anne E. Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die--in fact, many of its structures have been transformed into prisons, just as prisons have shifted to locking up those who in an earlier era would have been sent to an asylum"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-208) and index.
Call Number
KF3828 .P375 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781469640631 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1469640635 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781469640648 electronic book
1469640635 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781469640648 electronic book
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