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Title Solitary confinement : effects, practices, and pathways towards reform / edited by Jules Lobel and Peter Scharff Smith
Published New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : illustrations
Contents Solitary confinement-from extreme isolation to prison reform -- TWO CENTURIES OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT -- Solitary confinement-effects and practices from the nineteenth century until today -- Global perspectives on solitary confinement-practices and reforms worldwide -- Solitary confinement across borders -- The rise of supermax imprisonment in the United States -- Not isolating isolation -- Torture, solitary confinement, and international law -- II. MIND, BODY, AND SOUL-THE HARMS AND EXPERIENCE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT -- Solitary confinement, loneliness, and psychological harm -- First do no harm: applying the harms-to-benefits patient safety framework to solitary confinement -- Mythbusting solitary confinement in jail -- Social isolation, loneliness, and health -- The brain in isolation: a neuroscientist's perspective on solitary confinement -- Use of animals to study the neurobiological effects of isolation: historical and current perspectives -- Sharing experiences of solitary confinement-prisoners and staff
III. PRISON REFORM, PRISON LITIGATION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- The management of high-security prisoners: alternatives to solitary confinement -- Resisting supermax: rediscovering a humane approach to the management of high-risk prisoners -- Prisoners' Association as an alternative to solitary confinement-lessons learned from a Norwegian high-security prison -- Colorado ends prolonged, indeterminate solitary confinement -- Reflections on North Dakota's sustained solitary confinement reform -- Solitary confinement in Canada -- "Loneliness is a destroyer of humanity" -- Litigation to end indeterminate solitary confinement in California: the role of interdisciplinary and comparative experts -- Index
Summary "The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty, it is arguably the most punitive and dangerous intervention available to state authorities in democratic nations. Nevertheless, in the United States there are currently an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 prisoners in small cells for more than 22 hours per day with little or no social contact and no physical contact visits with family or friends. Even in Scandinavia, thousands of prisoners are placed in solitary confinement every year and with an alarming frequency. These facts have spawned international interest in this topic and a growing international reform movement, which includes researchers, litigators, and human rights defenders as well as prison staff and prisoners. This book is the first to take a broad international comparative approach and to apply an interdisciplinary lens to this subject. In this volume neuroscientists, high-level prison officials, social and political scientists, medical doctors, lawyers, and former prisoners and their families from different countries will address the effects and practices of prolonged solitary confinement and the movement for its reform and abolition"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford scholarship online, viewed October 15, 2021)
Subject Solitary confinement.
Prisons.
Jails.
Jails
Prisons
Solitary confinement
Form Electronic book
Author Lobel, Jules, editor.
Smith, Peter Scharff, 1971- editor.
LC no. 2019030827
ISBN 9780190947941
0190947942
9780190947934
0190947934