Keywords
mental illness, incarceration, deinstitutionalization
Abstract
This paper focuses on the relationship between historical mental illness treatment and modern incarceration, reimagining it as a horseshoe, with mental illness on one end and prison on the other. There are three reasons why the two parallel each other, these being: formulated sequestration, chronicity, and histories of failed high-minded reform. The paper then writes about the intersection of the two in a mental health ward in a prison. The last aspect discussed is the gap between the ends of the horseshoe, which is due to the role of volition.
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Recommended Citation
Liu, Alicia Y. (2021) "The Horseshoe Theory of Mental Illness and Incarceration," Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal: 2 (1), 5-16. 10.24968/2693-244X.2.1.1 https://works.swarthmore.edu/suhj/vol2/iss1/1