From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945 Parsons Anne E.
From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945 Parsons Anne E. To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did…
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From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945 Parsons Anne E.
To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. 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.
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 Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance.