This book presents a socio-legal analysis of social care detention in the post-carceral era. Drawing from disability rights law and the meanings of 'home' and 'institution' it proposes solutions to the paradoxical implications of the 2014 UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of 'deprivation of liberty'.

Lucy Series is a lecturer at the School for Policy Studies, Bristol University. This book reflects work completed as a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow at the School of Law and Politics, at Cardiff University.