Description: From Asylum to Prison : Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945, Paperback by Parsons, Anne E., ISBN 1469669471, ISBN-13 9781469669472, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance. Focusing on Pennsylvania, the state that ran one of the largest mental health systems in the country, Parsons tracks how the lack of community-based services, a fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic.
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.
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Book Title: From Asylum to Prison : Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Ma
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: From Asylum to Prison : Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Subject: United States / 20th Century, General, Penology, History
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Law, Social Science, History, Medical
Author: Anne E. Parsons
Series: Justice, Power, and Politics Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
