Disability and Community Living Policies

by Arie Rimmerman

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the roots of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization legislation and policies of the twentieth century, and twenty-first-century efforts to promote community living policies domestically and internationally, particularly through the role of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), a landmark treaty adopted on 13 December 2006. Rimmerman shows that deinstitutionalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107140714
• ISBN13: 9781107140714
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"