Extreme Punishment

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.

The authors in the anthology contribute from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, generating nuanced approaches and revealing common themes. The book is best for scholars in law and social sciences, as well as criminal justice practitioners, policy makers, and advocates who are interested in the limits of the law, the transformation of punishment, and the lived experiences of people subjected to them. (Valerie King, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, law.ox.ac.uk, September, 2016)

Autorentext
Efrat Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada. Hadar Aviram, University of California, USA. Thomas Blair, University of California, USA. Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford, UK. Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada. Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK. Emma Kaufman, Yale Law School, USA. Amy Klassen, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, UK. Mona Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA. Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, USA. Stuart J. Murray, University of Ottawa, Canada. Nadya Pittendrigh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Keramet Reiter, University of California, USA. Sarah Turnbull, University of Oxford. Sam Weiss, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice, USA.

Inhalt

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