
Fascinating data appeared today in a New York Times Op-Ed by
Bernard E. Harcourt of the University of Chicago. The data illustrate major twentieth-century trends:
- De-institutionalization (1958-1980) and re-institutionalization (1982-2000)
- Drop in the numbers in mental hospitals
- Increasing numbers in prison since 1980
Harcourt frames these data by asking the question: "Why did we diagnose deviance in such radically different ways over the course of the 20th century?"
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