Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition - Couverture souple

Ben-Moshe, Liat

 
9781517904432: Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
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ISBN 10 : 1517904439 ISBN 13 : 9781517904432
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.

Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration--antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom.

Decarcerating Disability's rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1517904439
ISBN 13 
9781517904432
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1517904420 ISBN 13 :  9781517904425
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2020
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