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Author Morelle, Marie

Title Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (263 p.)
Series Transnational Criminal Justice Ser
Transnational Criminal Justice Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The carceral imprint -- Chapter 1 Words, walls, and hierarchies: On some colonial legacies in the Burundian prison -- Chapter 2 Improving daily life?: Senegalese prisoners' use of letters as an attempt to reform colonial prison (1930s) -- Chapter 3 Confinement and development in Ethiopia: The uses of prison in public policies
Chapter 4 Mass expulsion as internal exclusion: Police raids and the imprisonment of West African immigrants in Ghana, 1969-1974 -- Part II Economies of value -- Chapter 5 'As if they can squeeze you to death': Recollections of post-arrest journeys towards and into prison in South Africa -- Chapter 6 The carceral impasse seen from the perspective of street youth in Burkina Faso -- Chapter 7 The value of prison in South Africa: Performing the prison experience beyond the prison -- Part III Tension within the dispensation of justice
Chapter 8 'I don't steal, I don't lie, I cut!' The paradoxes of the imprisonment of women for female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso -- Chapter 9 Seeking justice in an insecure world -- Chapter 10 A justice that dare not speak its name? Amicable settlements in the commune of Abobo (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) -- Part IV Transforming the prison -- Chapter 11 The languages of prison reform: How to speak about punishment in a period of political transition (Tunisia, 2011-2019) -- Chapter 12 Claiming rights in Yaoundé Central Prison
Chapter 13 The uses of pre-trial detention: A case study at the Maison Centrale in Conakry -- Chapter 14 Prison and the politics of the 'redemption script': A view from Johannesburg, South Africa -- Chapter 15 'Mother, you can't leave us here': Thinking about incarcerated homosexuality -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Imprisonment-Africa
Justice, Administration of-Africa
Prisons-Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Le Marcis, édéric
Hornberger, Julia
ISBN 9781000381511
100038151X