Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137404051
• ISBN13: 9781137404053
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"