Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
A critical study linking deinstitutionalization efforts with prison abolition, using disability justice to challenge systems of confinement and advocate for transformative change.
About This Book
Decarcerating Disability examines the historical and contemporary links between deinstitutionalization and the movement to abolish prisons.
The book centers disability justice as a framework for understanding systemic confinement and liberation.
It draws on scholarship and activism to critique carceral responses to disability and mental health.
Readers will encounter analyses of policy, institutional power, and grassroots resistance.
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