Supermax
Subtitle: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Uffculme
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781843927136
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: 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.