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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Incarceration and human rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2007; Half Title Page ; The Oxford Amnesty Lectures; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface ; Foreword; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Part I: Behind bars; 1. Anne Owers: Prisons inspection and the protection of human rights ; 1a. Liora Lazarus: Inspecting the tail of the dog ; 2. Shami Chakrabarti: Asylum and incarceration: Shami Chakrabarti ; 2a. Roger Zetter: Curtailing freedoms, diminishing rights in Britain's asylum policy: a narrative of 'them' and 'us'
  • 3. Lawrence O. Gostin: 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment, or preventive confinement?3a. Stephen Shute: Mental illness, preventive detention, prison, and human rights; Part II:Beyond the prison; 4. Loïc Wacquant: The use and abuse of the prison in the age of social insecurity; 4a. Ian Loader: Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality; 5. Thomas Mathiesen: Ten reasons for not building more prisons; 5a. David Downes: Comments on Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons; 6. Jack Mapanje: Creative incarceration and strategies for surviving freedom.

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