Solitary confinement : effects, practices, and pathways toward reform / edited by Jules Lobel and Peter Scharff Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lobel, Jules, editor.

Smith, Peter Scharff, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solitary confinement.

Prisons.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Solitary confinement is used for a variety of different reasons in many prison systems all over the world, despite the fact that research shows that these practices have widespread and pronounced negative health effects. Besides the death penalty, solitary confinement is arguably the most punitive and dangerous intervention available to state authorities in democratic nations. This broad and interdisciplinary text draws together research and personal experience from neuroscientists, high level prison officials, social and political scientists, medical doctors, lawyers, and former prisoners and their families from different countries in order to address the effects and practices of prolonged solitary confinement and to strengthen the movement for its reform and eventual abolition.

Contents:

Two centuries of solitary confinement

Mind, body, and soul : the harms and experience of solitary confinement

Prison reform, prison litigation, and human rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from title screen.

ISBN:

9780190947934

0190947934

OCLC:

1136883307

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.