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Summary: | In 'Redistributing the Poor', ethnographer and historical sociologist Armando Lara-Millâan 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-Millâan 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.
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Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 16, 2021) |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 pages) illustrations (black and white). |
ISBN: | 9780197507933 |
DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780197507896.001.0001 |