Extreme Punishment
Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement
Published on 14. January 2014
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Paperback/Softback
255 pages
978-1-349-56056-1 (ISBN)
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This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Edition
2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-56056-1 (9781349560561)
DOI
10.1057/9781137441157
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Keramet Reiter | Alexa Koenig
Extreme Punishment
Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement
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Persons
Efrat Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Hadar Aviram, University of California, USA.
Thomas Blair, University of California, USA.
Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford, UK.
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada.
Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK.
Emma Kaufman, Yale Law School, USA.
Amy Klassen, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada.
Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, UK.
Mona Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA.
Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, USA.
Stuart J. Murray, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Nadya Pittendrigh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Keramet Reiter, University of California, USA.
Sarah Turnbull, University of Oxford.
Sam Weiss, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice, USA.
Hadar Aviram, University of California, USA.
Thomas Blair, University of California, USA.
Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford, UK.
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada.
Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK.
Emma Kaufman, Yale Law School, USA.
Amy Klassen, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada.
Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, UK.
Mona Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA.
Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, USA.
Stuart J. Murray, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Nadya Pittendrigh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Keramet Reiter, University of California, USA.
Sarah Turnbull, University of Oxford.
Sam Weiss, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice, USA.
Content
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 Guantánamo; Alexa Koenig
Afterword: Hadar Aviram
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 Guantánamo; Alexa Koenig
Afterword: Hadar Aviram