From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945 /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Parsons, Anne E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > United States.
Mentally ill offenders > United States.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Detention of persons > United States.
Asylums > United States > History.
Imprisonment > United States > History.
Prisons > United States > History.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Commitment of Mentally Ill > history
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Institutionalization > history
Prisons > history
Mental Health Services > history
Socioeconomic Factors > history
History, 20th Century
Medicine in the Arts
Internement (Psychiatrie) > États-Unis.
Criminels vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > États-Unis.
Asiles > États-Unis > Histoire.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Prisons > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Asylums
Detention of persons
Imprisonment
Marginality, Social
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
Mentally ill offenders
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Prisons
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mental hospitals and the carceral state
  • Unlocking the doors
  • Flying the cuckoo's nest
  • Custodialism reborn
  • Cruel choices.

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