From Asylum to Prison
Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945
Anne E. Parsons
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2018
Pages: 240
Subject: Medical, History, Social Science
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Print ISBN: 9.78147E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469640648
DESCRIPTION
This groundbreaking book recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers critical insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum in crucial ways, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.