Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment And Disability In The United States And Canada

Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding of incarceration, and that we must expand what has come to be called 'incarceration.' The chapters in this book examine a host of sites, such as prisons, institutions for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, special education, detention centers, and group homes; explore why various sites should be understood as incarceration; and discuss the causes and effects of these sites historically and currently. This volume includes a preface by Professor Angela Y. Davis and an afterword by Professor Robert McRuer.

• • Author: L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman, A. Carey
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: May 29, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 313 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137393238
• • ISBN-13: 9781137393234