Full Description
This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Contents
Foreword; Marc Mauer
Introduction; Alexa Koenig and Keramet Reiter
1. Fear-Suffused Hell-Holes: The Architecture of Extreme Punishment; Yvonne Jewkes
2. The Limits of Punishment; Emma Kaufman and Sam Weiss
3. Immigration Detention and the Expansion of Penal Power in the United Kingdom; Mary Bosworth and Sarah Turnbull
4. (Im)migrating Penal Excess: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Case of Maricopa County, Arizona; Mona Lynch
5. A New 'Ecology of Cruelty'? The Changing Shape of Maximum Security Custody in England and Wales; Alison Liebling
6. Seclusive Space: Crisis Confinement, and Behavior Modification in Canadian Forensic Psychiatric Settings; Stuart J. Murray and Dave Holmes
7. Normalizing Exceptions: Solitary Confinement and the Micro-Politics of Risk/Need; Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Amy Klassen
8. Making Visible Invisible Suffering: Non-Deliberative Agency and the Bodily Rhetoric of Tamms Supermax Prisoners; Nadya Pittendrigh
9. Punishing Mental Illness: Trans-Institutionalization and Solitary Confinement in the United States; Keramet Reiter and Thomas Blair
10. Between Protection and Punishment: The Irregular Arrival Regime in Canadian Refugee Law; Efrat Arbel
11. From Man to Beast: Social Death at Guantánamo; Alexa Koenig
Afterword: Hadar Aviram
