The Globalization of Supermax Prisons /

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"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...

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Other Authors: Wacquant, Loïc J. D. (writer of foreword.), Ross, Jeffrey Ian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisons.
Prison administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prisons > Administration > États-Unis.
Prisons > États-Unis.
Prisons > Administration.
Prisons
Prison administration > United States.
Prisons > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Jose 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.

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