Premium
Deinstitutionalization and the Rights of the Deviant
Author(s) -
Scull Andrew
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1981.tb00825.x
Subject(s) - rhetoric , criminology , mentally ill , psychology , political science , social psychology , sociology , psychotherapist , mental health , mental illness , philosophy , linguistics
The deinstitutionalization movement has been widely hailed as a beneficent reform which reflected advances in understanding produced by social scientific research. Yet close attention to the achievements rather than the rhetoric of the movement suggests a much bleaker picture. For neither the mentally ill nor the criminal has the outcome matched proponents' expectations and intentions.