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Alternatives to (Disability) Incarceration

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When thinking of disability and incarceration from an intersectional perspective (as suggested in the introduction to this volume), it is important to think about incarceration in a variety of locales that disabled and/or non normative bodies and minds are being swept into, such as psychiatric hospitals, residential institutions for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and prisons. I therefore focus, in this chapter, on discussions of alternatives to incarceration (broadly defined) that take place in three movements with an abolitionary framework: antipsychiatry, prison or penal abolition, and the movement to close down institutions for those labeled intellectually and developmentally disabled. These movements seek not to reform prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and residential institutions for those labeled as developmentally disabled, but to do away with them altogether.

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Ben-Moshe, L. (2014). Alternatives to (Disability) Incarceration. In: Ben-Moshe, L., Chapman, C., Carey, A.C. (eds) Disability Incarcerated. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388476_14

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