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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 Am...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Parsons, Anne E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mental hospitals and the carceral state
  • Unlocking the doors
  • Flying the cuckoo's nest
  • Custodialism reborn
  • Cruel choices.