Punishment in Prison: Constituting the Normal and the Atypical in Solitary and Other Forms of Confinement

What aspects of human liberty does incarceration impinge? A remarkable group of Black and white prisoners, most of whom had little formal education and no resources, raised that question in the 1960s and 1970s. Incarcerated individuals asked judges for relief from corporal punishment; radical food d...

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1. VerfasserIn: Aseem Mehta (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Tor Tarantola ; Sophie Angelis ; Meredith Wheeler ; Megan Hauptman ; Madeline Silva ; Laura Kokotailo ; Judith Resnik ; Hirsa Amin
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2020
In:Jahr: 2020
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