Redistributing the poor : jails, hospitals, and the crisis of law and fiscal austerity / Armando Lara-Millán.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lara-Millán, Armando, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jails--United States--Administration.

Jails.

Prisoners--United States--Social conditions.

Prisoners.

Public hospitals--United States--Finance.

Public hospitals.

Poor--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Poor.

Social control--United States.

Social control.

Fiscal policy $z United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In 'Redistributing the Poor', ethnographer and historical sociologist Armando Lara-Millán takes us into the day-to-day operations of running the largest hospital and jail system in the world. He shows how journalists, academics, and policy makers have drastically misunderstood the rise mental illness in jails as well as the decline of public hospitals in America. Lara-Millán offers a new way to think about how the government makes unsolvable social problems disappear on paper and perpetuates an endless cycle of social suffering.

Contents:

Part One: The Expansion of Medicine in Large Urban Jail

Chapter 1: Summoning the Sick and Violent to Jail

Chapter 2: The Medicalization of the Los Angeles County Jail System, 1978-2015

Part Two: The Restriction of Medicine in Large Public Hospitals

Chapter 3: Opioids, Observation, and Restricting Access in the Public Emergency Room

Chapter 4: Building a Public Hospital That Everyone Knows is Too Small

Conclusion: Towards the Administrative Disappearing of Social Suffering

Appendix: Historically Embedded Ethnography.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-750792-1

0-19-750793-X

0-19-750791-3

OCLC:

1221017420