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Prisoners, Solitude, and Time / Ian O'Donnell.

LIBRA HV8728 .O36 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
O'Donnell, Ian, author.
Series:
Clarendon studies in criminology
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Solitude.
Solitude--Religious aspects.
Imprisonment.
Physical Description:
xv, 327 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Summary:
Clarendon Studies in Criminology arms to provide a forum for outstanding empirical and theoretical work in all aspects of criminology and criminal justice, broadly understood. The Editors welcome submissions from established scholars, as well as excellent PhD work. The Series was inaugurated in 1994, with Roger Hood as its first General Editor, following discussions between Oxford University Press and three criminology centres. It is edited under the auspices of these three criminological centres: the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics, and the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. Each supplies members of the Editorial Board and, in turn, the Series Editor. Book jacket.
Contents:
1 Historical Perspectives 1
Chatter and its Discontents 5
The Architecture of Isolation 7
Debate and Dissent 15
The Model Prison 21
A 'maniac-making system'? 24
The Hard Cell of Solitude 30
2 Reconsidering the Effects of Silence and Separation 34
Madness becomes Visible 34
Madness is Misattributed 36
Adaptation and Fearing the Unknown 40
Subterfuge 41
Rewriting Dickens 44
Extending Temporal Parameters 48
Then and Now 54
3 The (Certain) Pains and (Uncertain) Pleasures of Solitude 59
Studies of the Solitary Prisoner 60
The Social Imperative 64
The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Being Alone 67
When Isolation is Invited 74
Crippling Lethargy 78
Silent and Solitary Virtues 82
4 Pathological Loneliness 86
Accidie 86
Barbed Wire Disease 88
Winter-over Syndrome 91
Capsules and Frontiers 95
Wilderness Narratives 98
Interim Conclusion 101
5 The Apotheosis of Solitary Confinement 106
Separation Redux (and Redoubled) 108
Measuring Madness 115
Claim and Counterclaim 120
Carceral Creep? 125
6 Making the SHU Fit (for Purpose) 130
Recidivism 133
Staying Alive 136
Degrees of Isolation 141
'Fetters of iron' Without 'cords of love' 144
7 Lockdown, Infamy, and Inhuman Relations 150
Murder and Mayhem 150
Dramatis Personae 157
An Ecology of Cruelty 164
Victim Precipitation 172
Where to From Here? 174
8 Time Passes, Inescapably 176
Calling Time to Account 177
Time Files, in Retrospect 183
Chronophobia 189
Styles of Time Usage 191
Clock Time and Prison Time 196
9 Critical Fractions: Life Lived and Life Left 201
The Pain Quotient 201
An Adjustment Curve 205
Structuring Prison Time 209
Threats to the Self 212
The Erosion of Memory 217
10 Taming Time and Reframing Isolation 222
Rescheduling 227
Removal 230
Reduction 236
Reorientation 239
Resistance 241
Raptness 247
Reinterpretation 249
11 Withstanding Time's Abrasion 256
Early Adapters 260
Seeking Refuge in a Supreme Being 266
The Buoyancy of Hope 272
Post-traumatic Growth 273
The Art of Living 277
Closing the Circle 279
Coda 282.
ISBN:
9780199684489
0199684480
OCLC:
891658336

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