Incarceration and Human Rights

Herausgeber: Mccarthy, Melissa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of incarceration? And conversely, what can prisons, their hard facts and the ideas underpinning them, tell us about human rights? The book offers a diversity of voices: from the inside view of Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons to the words of a poet and former political prisoner; from an international policy overview of abuses of the mentally ill to a socio-economic reading of race and class in prisons. This range of approaches offers a uniquely rounded view of the topic, while each contributor's eminence in their field gives great depth of expertise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780719081811
• ISBN-10: 0719081815
• Artikelnr.: 28968796

Autorenporträt

Melissa McCarthy is a freelance writer and editor

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: behind bars 1. Prisons inspection and the protection
of human rights - Anne Owers 1a. Inspecting the tail of the dog - Liora
Lazarus 2. Asylum and incarceration - Shami Chakrabarti 2a. Curtailing
freedoms, diminishing rights in Britain's asylum policy: a narrative of
'them and 'us' - Roger Zetter 3. 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons
with mental illness: treatment, punishment or preventive confinement? -
Lawrence O. Gostin 3a. Mental illness, preventive detention, prison and
human rights - Stephen Shute Part II: beyond the prison 4. The use and
abuse of prison in the age of social insecurity - Loïc Wacquant 4a.
Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality - Ian Loader 5. Ten
reasons for not building more prisons - Thomas Mathiesen 5a. Comments on
Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons' - David Downes 6. Creative incarceration and
strategies for surviving freedom - Jack Mapanje 6a. 'With no amulet to
protect him': a South African response to Jack Mapanje - Jonny Steinberg
Index