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

By: Parsons, Anne EMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Justice, power, and politicsPublisher: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)ISBN: 9781469640648; 1469640643; 9781469640655; 1469640651Other title: Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945Subject(s): United States | 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 | Asylums | Detention of persons | Imprisonment | Marginality, Social | Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention | Mentally ill offenders | People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc | Prisons | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology | HISTORY / United States / 20th CenturyGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | History. | Electronic books. DDC classification: 365/.608740973 LOC classification: KF3828 | .P375 2018Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Mental hospitals and the carceral state -- 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.
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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"-- Provided by publisher.

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