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Informationen zum Autor Melissa McCarthy is a freelance writer and editor Klappentext A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. Poets, practitioners, academics and theorists offer an illuminating range of perspectives for specialists and the general reader. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. Poets! practitioners! academics and theorists offer an illuminating range of perspectives for specialists and the general reader. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: behind bars1. Prisons inspection and the protection of human rights - Anne Owers1a. Inspecting the tail of the dog - Liora Lazarus2. Asylum and incarceration - Shami Chakrabarti2a. Curtailing freedoms, diminishing rights in Britain's asylum policy: a narrative of 'them and 'us' - Roger Zetter3. 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment or preventive confinement? - Lawrence O. Gostin3a. Mental illness, preventive detention, prison and human rights - Stephen ShutePart II: beyond the prison 4. The use and abuse of prison in the age of social insecurity - Loïc Wacquant4a. Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality - Ian Loader5. Ten reasons for not building more prisons - Thomas Mathiesen5a. Comments on Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons' - David Downes6. Creative incarceration and strategies for surviving freedom - Jack Mapanje6a. 'With no amulet to protect him': a South African response to Jack Mapanje - Jonny SteinbergIndex
