Incarceration and human rights : the Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2007 / edited by Melissa McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, Melissa.

Series:

Oxford Amnesty lectures

Oxford amnesty lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Civil rights.

Prisoners.

Imprisonment--Social aspects.

Imprisonment.

Physical Description:

xi, 153 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.

Summary:

This book is 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-economic reading of race and class in prisons. This range of approaches offers a uniquely rounded view of the topic, while each contributor's eminence in their field gives great depth of expertise.

Contents:

Part I behind bars

1 Prisons inspection and the protection of human rights / Anne Owers Owers, Anne

1a Inspecting the tail of the dog / Liora Lazarus Lazarus, Liora

2 Asylum and incarceration / Shami Chakrabarti Chakrabarti, Shami

2a Curtailing freedoms, diminishing rights in Britain's asylum policy: a narrative of 'them and 'us' / Roger Zetter Zetter, Roger

3 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment or preventive confinement? / Lawrence O. Gostin Gostin, Lawrence O.

3a Mental illness, preventive detention, prison and human rights / Stephen Shute Shute, Stephen

Part II beyond the prison

4 The use and abuse of prison in the age of social insecurity / Loïc Wacquant Wacquant, Loïc

4a Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality / Ian Loader Loader, Ian

5 Ten reasons for not building more prisons / Thomas Mathiesen Mathiesen, Thomas

5a Comments on Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons' / David Downes Downes, David

6 Creative incarceration and strategies for surviving freedom / Jack Mapanje Mapanje, Jack

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719081804

0719081807

0719081815

9780719081811

OCLC:

540182712