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Title Extreme punishment : comparative studies in detention, incarceration and solitary confinement / edited by Keramet Reiter and Alexa Koenig
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 255 pages.)
Series Palgrave studies in prisons and penology
Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.
Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Detention of persons -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Detention of persons -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain.
Detention of persons -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Canada.
Form Electronic book
Author Reiter, Keramet, editor
Koening, Alexa, editor
ISBN 9781137441157 (electronic bk.)
1137441151 (electronic bk.)