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Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.

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Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.
Autorenporträt
Anne E. Parsons is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she serves as the Director of Public History.