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Reconsidering Confinement: Interlocking Locations and Logics of Incarceration

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Disability Incarcerated

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Through this collection, we hope to engage in and inspire dialogue across people interested in imprisonment, institutionalization, and other sites of incarceration and segregation. Disability is of course a central component to our discussion as we consider how these sites uniquely and collectively shape the experiences of disabled people and how disability as a concept undergirds the development and workings of incarcerative systems. Because the work in this book crosses fields, examines multiple sites of incarceration, and attends to the interlocking of oppression, this chapter is designed to provide a broad historical and theoretical overview in order to showcase the intersections across sites and forms of inequality.

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Chapman, C., Carey, A.C., Ben-Moshe, L. (2014). Reconsidering Confinement: Interlocking Locations and Logics of Incarceration. In: Ben-Moshe, L., Chapman, C., Carey, A.C. (eds) Disability Incarcerated. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388476_1

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