Total confinement : madness and reason in the maximum security prison /

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In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums"--And the mental health units that complement them--Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004.
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 7.
Temas:
Solitary confinement > United States.
Prisoners > Mental health > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Prisons > United States.
Prisonniers > Santé mentale > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Prisons > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Imprisonment.
Prisoners > Mental health.
Prisons.
Solitary confinement.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Controlling troubles
  • The choice to be bad
  • The asylum of last resort
  • Custody and treatment at the divide
  • The games run deep
  • Struggling it out.

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