Liat Ben-Moshe

Decarcerating Disability

Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

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Produktbeschreibung

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of di

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 139mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781517904432
• ISBN-10: 1517904439
• Artikelnr.: 59548148

Autorenporträt

Liat Ben-Moshe is assistant professor of criminology, law, and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is coeditor of Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Abbreviations 
Introduction: The Case for Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and
Deinstitutionalization
1. The Perfect Storm: Origin Stories of Deinstitutionalization
2. Abolition in Deinstitutionalization: Normalization and the Myth of
Mental Illness 
3. Abolition as Knowledge and Ways of Unknowing
4. Why Prisons Are Not “the New Asylums”
5. Resistance to Inclusion and Community Living: NIMBY, Desegregation, and
Race-Ability
6. Political and Affective Economies of Closing Carceral Enclosures
7. Institutional and Prison Reform Litigation: From Politicization to the
Governable Iron Cage
Epilogue: Abolition Now
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index