Deinstitutionalisation and the development of community care

This chapter outlines the development of the policies of deinstitutionalisation and community care. It discusses the work of theorists including Goffman and Foucault, who were critical of the oppressive nature of the asylum regime. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the failings of community care in the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that a moral panic led to the introduction of more restrictive policies and a focus on risk.