Policing Contingencies
Policing Contingencies
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2004
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W. Staples
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changes in public opinion and advocacy around mental illness; and the desire of states to reduce costs of operating mental hospitals. Chapter 5 discusses the second wave of deinstitutionalization, which involved people with mental retardation. Stroman briefly discusses many of the stereotypes about people with mental retardation and then documents the number of people with mental retardation who have been institutionalized in America. The number of people with mental retardation in institutions grew steadily over the last century until 1967, when a total of 194,657 people were institutionalized. Since then, there has been a significant decline, and most recent figures indicate that around 50,000 people with mental retardation remain in institutions today. Again, Stroman identifies six factors behind this process of deinstitutionalization: criticisms of the poor quality of life in institutions; the influence of the advocacy movement; the development of a new ethos of inclusion, normalization, and integration; President Kennedy’s support of deinstitutionalization; increasing costs associated with institutions; and judicial responses to a growing era of reform, protest, and civil rights. In “Multiple Waves of Changes for Persons with Physical Disabilities,” Stroman discusses various historical milestones aimed at addressing the needs of physically disabled people, including Workers Compensation Schemes, assistance for injured military personnel, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The growth of disability protests in the last 30 years is also acknowledged, and the birth of the Independent Living Movement is recognized as a major advance for the rights and freedoms of disabled people. In the final chapter, “The Growing Wave of Self-Determination,” Stroman outlines how self-determination works in practice, through individualized planning and budgeting, the use of service brokers and fiscal intermediaries, and individual choice in service selection. He also explores the conflicts and tensions existing between the needs of disability service providers and disabled people as consumers of services. Overall, this book makes some useful contributions to the study of disability policy and public policy. My main criticisms surround its rather narrow (and largely unarticulated) positivist framework, which limits the scope and breath of analysis. This positivist framework means that there is no attempt to connect disability as an area of social inequality to wider social structures such as classism, racism, and sexism, and there is insufficient attention paid to the connections between disability and identity politics.