From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
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From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
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- From asylum to prison : deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
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- deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
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- Anne E. Parsons
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- Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history
- Detention of persons
- Detention of persons -- United States
- History
- History, 20th Century
- Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
- Imprisonment
- Imprisonment -- United States -- History
- Institutionalization -- history
- Marginality, Social
- Marginality, Social -- United States
- Medicine in the Arts
- Mental health services -- history
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States
- Mentally ill offenders
- Mentally ill offenders -- United States
- People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc
- People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Prisons
- Prisons -- History
- Prisons -- United States -- History
- Socioeconomic Factors -- history
- United States
- United States
- Asylums
- Asylums -- United States -- History
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Justice, power, and politics
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