Solitary Confinement : Lived Experiences and Ethical Implications /

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"This book is the first to consider the history of solitary confinement and how it is experienced by the individuals undergoing it. Using Merleau-Ponty's concept of embodied subjectivity, it provides first-hand accounts of the inhumane experience of solitary confinement to provide a better...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Polizzi, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Solitary confinement.
Einzelhaft
Solitary confinement > Moral and ethical aspects.
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The experience of solitary confinement : some beginning reflections
  • A very brief history of solitary confinement and the supermax penitentiary
  • The developmental history of solitary and supermax confinement : toward a phenomenology of the state of exception
  • The Supreme Court, solitary confinement, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment
  • From the other side of the door : the lived experience of solitary confinement
  • Some closing reflections.

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