Overview
This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Full Product Details
Author: Keramet Reiter ,
Alexa Koenig
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 4.532kg
ISBN: 9781137441140
ISBN 10: 1137441143
Pages: 255
Publication Date: 06 August 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'A deeply disturbing and very powerful anthology on the use of extreme punishments in the United States, England, and Canada. Professors Reiter and Koenig present a collection of excellent essays that covers topics such as the use of solitary confinement, supermax prisons, immigration detentions, and the social death of detention in Guantanamo. The book is unique and especially important in showing how this transcends a single nation and how it involves many different forms of punishments that are cruel and inhumane. This book deserves a wide readership and should be the catalyst for long overdue change.' - Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, School of Law, University of California, Irvine, USA Phantasms of criminality drive our elected officials, our police, our state, our nation - and, as we learn in these essays, the free world. Eye-opening and trail-blazing in its interdisciplinary contributions, Extreme Punishment confronts the penal and disciplinary regimes of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. And in the process, these exemplary writers and scholars take us on a chilling journey through the terrain of detention and punishment. Groundbreaking in its research and documentation, this bracing collection forces us to think again - and in unexpected ways - about how law abets and sustains a global network of military, immigration, and penal polices, unprecedented in their severity and reach.' - Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, USA.
Author Information
Efrat Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada. Hadar Aviram, University of California, USA. Thomas Blair, University of California, USA. Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford, UK. Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada. Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK. Emma Kaufman, Yale Law School, USA. Amy Klassen, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, UK. Mona Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA. Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, USA. Stuart J. Murray, University of Ottawa, Canada. Nadya Pittendrigh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Keramet Reiter, University of California, USA. Sarah Turnbull, University of Oxford. Sam Weiss, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice, USA.
