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From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945 / Anne E. Parsons.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469640648
  • 9781469640655
Other title:
  • Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF3828 .F766 2018
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Contents:
Unlocking the doors -- Flying the cuckoo's nest -- Custodialism reborn -- Cruel choices.
Subject: "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"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Mental hospitals and the carceral state -- Unlocking the doors -- Flying the cuckoo's nest -- Custodialism reborn -- Cruel choices.

"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"--

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