RT Book
T1 Democracy in captivity: prisoners, patients, and the limits of self-government
A1 Berk, Christopher D. 1985-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1847816509
AB "Past and present efforts to reform prisons and mental hospitals are haunted by a desire to democratize custody. Embedded in this desire, Democracy in Captivity shows, is a persistent anxiety about who ought to govern ward life. Stuck in the middle of the social engineering efforts of both custodians and would-be democratic reformers are prisoners and patients themselves. Wards struggle for representation and, invariably, provoke backlash -- not only in the blunt forms of restraint chairs, riot gear, and a surgeon's scalpel, but also more covert sorts of maneuvering under the cover of 'democratic' management. Christopher D. Berk explains how these more subtle moves facilitate exploitation, entrench disenfranchisement, and naturalize authoritarian rule. In doing so, he uses custody as a lens to examine wider pathologies that have captured the politics of punishment today"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 133-146
CN HV9469
SN 9780520394933
SN 9780520394940
K1 Prisoners : United States : Social conditions
K1 Democracy : United States
K1 Prisoners : Institutional care
K1 Prisoners : Civil rights : United States
K1 Criminals : Rehabilitation : United States
K1 USA : Strafvollzug : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Gefangener : Demokratie : Recht