num_pages: 313
description: 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.
language: English
title: Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan