Incarceration and human rights : the Oxford Amnesty Lectures.

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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 har...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mccarthy, Melissa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Colección:Oxford Amnesty Lectures MUP.
Temas:
Prisoners > Civil rights.
Imprisonment > Social aspects.
Prisonniers > Droits.
Emprisonnement > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Imprisonment > Social aspects
Prisoners > Civil rights
England.
Europe.
Loic Wacquant.
Oxford Amnesty Lecture.
Wales.
asylum policies.
criminal confinement.
economic deregulation.
human rights.
incarceration.
mental illness.
national identity.
neoliberal penality.
penal state.
policy entrepreneurs.
prison.
social insecurity.
vulnerable population.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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-
Notas:6a. Jonny Steinberg: 'With no amulet to protect him': a South African response to Jack MapanjeIndex.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (166 pages)
ISBN:9780719095207
0719095204

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