Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

"Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons--even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guenther, Lisa, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Solitary confinement > United States > History.
Solitary confinement > History.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Phenomenology.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Solitary confinement
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
United States
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement
  • I. The Early U.S. Penitentiary System: 1. An Experiment in Living Death; 2. Person, World, and Other: A Husserlian Critique of Solitary Confinement; 3. The Racialization of Criminality and the Criminalization of Race: From the Plantation to the Prison Farm
  • II. The Modern Penitentiary: 4. From Thought Reform to Behavior Modification; 5. Living Relationality: Merleau-Ponty's Critical Phenomenological Account of Behavior; 6. Beyond Dehumanization: A Posthumanist Critique of Intensive Confinement
  • III. Supermax Prisons: 7. Supermax Confinement and the Exhaustion of Space; 8. Dead Time: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Temporality of Supermax Confinement; 9. From Accountability to Responsibility: A Levinasian Critique of Supermax Rhetoric
  • Conclusion.

Ejemplares similares