{"product_id":"decarcerating-disability-deinstitutionalization-and-prison-abolition-paperback","title":"Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLiat Ben-Moshe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrison 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. \u003ci\u003eDecarcerating Disability\u003c\/i\u003e provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiat 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, \u003ci\u003eDecarcerating Disability\u003c\/i\u003e also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecarcerating Disability\u003c\/i\u003e's rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiat Ben-Moshe is assistant professor of criminology, law, and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDisability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47676616802525,"sku":"9781517904432","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/eXk3R1c1RS90NFp6TE5hK0pqM0c2dz09.webp?v=1773972340","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/decarcerating-disability-deinstitutionalization-and-prison-abolition-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}