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The globalization of supermax prisons /
"Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional ins...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Critical issues in crime and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword : probing the meta-prison / Loïc Wacquant
- The globalization of supermax prisons : an introduction / Jeffrey Ian Ross
- The invention of the American supermax prison / Jeffrey Ian Ross
- How Canada built its supermax prison / Jeffrey Ian Ross
- Supermaxes south of the border / Patrick O'Day and Thomas O'Connor
- The growth of the supermax option in Britain / Angela West Crews
- Analyzing the supermax prisons in the Netherlands : the Dutch supermax / Sandra L. Resodihardjo
- Supermaximum prisons in South Africa / Fran Buntman and Lukas Muntingh
- From "secondary punishment" to "supermax" : the human costs of high-security regimes in Australia / David Brown and Bree Carlton
- The emergence of the supermax in New Zealand / Greg Newbold
- The rise of the supermax in Brazil / José de Jesus Filho
- Guantánamo : America's foreign supermax in the fight against terrorism / Jeffrey Ian Ross and Dawn L. Rothe
- A globalized militarized prison juggernaut : the case of Abu Ghraib / Dawn L. Rothe
- Conclusion : globalization, innovation, or neither? / Jeffrey Ian Ross.