Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition - 9781517904432

Politics of (En)closure: Deinstitutionalization, Disability, and Prison Abolition argues that a complex understanding of disability is fundamental to an understanding of decarceration. Many argue that the rise of deinstitutionalization led directly to the rise of imprisonment. Liat Ben-Moshe complicates this narrative by looking closely at how people of color and disabled people are pathologized as well as how profit plays a roll in caring for disposable" populations in nursing homes, rehab facilities, prisons, etc. Ben-Moshe puts forth a theory of carceral abolition as a way to understand the failed utopian dream of deinstitutionalization and how to move forward"--

• | Author: Liat Ben-Moshe
• | Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• | Publication Date: May 19, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1517904439
• | ISBN-13: 9781517904432