| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Criminology, 6 |
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Routledge Advances in Criminology, 6
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Violence of Incarceration: An Introduction; 2 An Afternoon in September 1983; 3 Entombing Resistance: Institutional Power and Polarisation in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit; 4 Protests and 'Riots' in the Violent Institution; 5 Child Incarceration: Institutional Abuse, the Violent State and the Politics of Impunity; 6 Naked Power: Strip Searching in Women's Prisons; 7 The Imprisonment of Women and Girls in the North of Ireland: A 'Continuum of Violence'; 8 Neither Kind Nor Gentle: The Perils of 'Gender Responsive Justice' |
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9 The United States Military Prison: The Normalcy of Exceptional Brutality10 A Reign of Penal Terror: United States Global Statecraft and the Technology of Punishment and Capture; 11 Indigenous Incarceration: The Violence of Colonial Law and Justice; 12 The Violence of Refugee Incarceration; 13 Preventing Torture and Casual Cruelty in Prisons Through Independent Monitoring; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Drawing on primary research in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK this volume provides a disturbing and provocative insight into the brutality of incarceration in 'civilised' states and its links to the revelations of torture and abuse in the 'war on terror' |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prison violence
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Violence
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Prison violence.
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Violence.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCulloch, Jude
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| ISBN |
9780203892916 |
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0203892917 |
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