Research Catalog

Title

The violence of incarceration / edited by Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Scraton, Phil
• McCulloch, Jude

Description

viii, 272 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge advances in criminology ; 5

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in criminology ; 5.

Subject

Prison violence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The violence of incarceration : an introduction / Jude McCulloch and Phil Scraton -- An afternoon in September 1983 / Laurence McKeown -- Entombing resistance : institutional power and polarisation in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit / Bree Carlton -- Protests and "riots" in the violent institution / Phil Scraton -- Child incarceration : institutional abuse, the violent state, and the politics of impunity / Barry Goldson -- Naked power : strip-searching in women's prisons / Jude McCulloch and Amanda George -- The imprisonment of women and girls in the north of Ireland : a "continuum of violence" / Linda Moore and Phil Scraton -- Neither kind nor gentle : the perils of "gender responsive justice" / Cassandra Shaylor -- The United States military prison : the normalcy of exceptional brutality / Avery F. Gordon -- A reign of penal terror : United States global statecraft and the technology of punishment and capture / Dylan Rodríguez -- Indigenous incarceration : the violence of colonial law and justice / Chris Cunneen -- The violence of refugee incarceration / Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering -- Preventing torture and casual cruelty in prisons through independent monitoring / Diana Medlicott.

ISBN

• 9780415963138 (hbk)
• 0415963133 (hbk)
• 9780203892916 (ebk)
• 0203892917 (ebk)

LCCN

^^2008005150

OCLC

• 192042148
• SCSB-10994601

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library