Extreme Punishment [electronic resource] : Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement /
Reiter, Keramet.editor.
Koenig, Alexa.editor.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Criminology.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Sociology.
Prison and Punishment.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Crime and Society.
Sociology, general.
Human Rights.