Extreme punishment : comparative studies in detention, incarceration and solitary confinement /: comparative studies in detention, incarceration and solitary confinement. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Comparative studies in detention, incarceration and solitary confinement
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Keramet Reiter, University of California, Irvine, USA and Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
• Editors: Reiter, Keramet; Koenig, Alexa, 1972-
• Contents: Foreword; Marc Mauer -- Introduction; Alexa Koenig and Keramet Reiter -- 1. Fear-Suffused Hell-Holes: The Architecture of Extreme Punishment; Yvonne Jewkes -- 2. The Limits of Punishment; Emma Kaufman and Sam Weiss -- 3. Immigration Detention and the Expansion of Penal Power in the United Kingdom; Mary Bosworth and Sarah Turnbull -- 4. (Im)migrating Penal Excess: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Case of Maricopa County, Arizona; Mona Lynch -- 5. A New 'Ecology of Cruelty'? The Changing Shape of Maximum Security Custody in England and Wales; Alison Liebling -- 6. Seclusive Space: Crisis Confinement, and Behavior Modification in Canadian Forensic Psychiatric Settings; Stuart J. Murray and Dave Holmes -- 7. Normalizing Exceptions: Solitary Confinement and the Micro-Politics of Risk/Need; Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Amy Klassen -- 8. Making Visible Invisible Suffering: Non-Deliberative Agency and the Bodily Rhetoric of Tamms Supermax Prisoners; Nadya Pittendrigh -- 9. Punishing Mental Illness: Trans-Institutionalization and Solitary Confinement in the United States; Keramet Reiter and Thomas Blair -- 10. Between Protection and Punishment: The Irregular Arrival Regime in Canadian Refugee Law; Efrat Arbel -- 11. From Man to Beast: Social Death at Guantanamo; Alexa Koenig -- Afterword: Hadar Aviram.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiv, 255 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 364.6; Criminology; Punishment -- United States; Punishment -- Canada; Punishment -- Great Britain; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Penology & punishment -- Canada -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- USA; Human rights -- Canada -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- USA; Criminology: legal aspects -- Canada -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- USA; Punishment; Crime; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Law -- International; Crime & criminology; Politics & government; Sociology; Human rights; Corrections; Punishment; Social justice; Crime—Sociological aspects; Social Science -- Penology; Penology & punishment; Canada; Great Britain; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137441157; 1137441151; 9781349560561; 1349560561
• Related ISBNs: 9781137441140; 1137441143
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.