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1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Contents |
Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: the supermax phenomenon; Chapter 2 Solitary confinement as a penal strategy: a brief history; Chapter 3 Factors and actors in the rise of supermax prisons; Chapter 4 Ideologies of control: discourses on the goals and roles of supermax prisons; Chapter 5 The bureaucratisation of control: prisoner classification and placement in supermax prisons; Chapter 6 Technologies of control: the architectural design, physical fixtures and security arrangements in supermax prisons |
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Chapter 7 Inside a supermax: daily routines and prisoner provisionsChapter 8 The dynamics of control: views from the control room, views from the cells; Chapter 9 Evaluating supermax confinement; Appendix Responses to documentary film on supermaxes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Prisons -- United States
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Solitary confinement -- United States
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Prison administration -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Prison administration
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Prisons
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Solitary confinement
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Strafvollzug
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Hochsicherheitstrakt
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Einzelhaft
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781843927136 |
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1843927136 |
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9781134026678 |
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1134026676 |
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