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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798743903321

Autore

Mccarthy Melissa

Titolo

Incarceration and human rights : The Oxford Amnesty Lectures

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2016

ISBN

0-7190-9520-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 pages)

Collana

Oxford Amnesty Lectures MUP

Altri autori (Persone)

McCarthyMelissa

Disciplina

364.6

Soggetti

Prisoners - Civil rights

Imprisonment - Social aspects

POLITICAL SCIENCE - International Relations - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

6a. Jonny Steinberg: 'With no amulet to protect him': a South African response to Jack MapanjeIndex.

Nota di contenuto

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.

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'

Sommario/riassunto

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-