Solitary confinement as state harm: Reimagining sentencing in light of dynamic censure and state blame
The continuous perpetration of unjustified harms by the carceral state through its use of solitary confinement justifies the creation of a novel process of automatic sentence review. This process is necessary to account for such state-perpetrated harms and communicate censure more accurately. This a...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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Punishment & society
Jahr: 2024, Band: 26, Heft: 1, Seiten: 72-90 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The continuous perpetration of unjustified harms by the carceral state through its use of solitary confinement justifies the creation of a novel process of automatic sentence review. This process is necessary to account for such state-perpetrated harms and communicate censure more accurately. This article proposes the use of a communicative theory of punishment developed in sentencing to characterise and account for the state's wrongdoing and harms in the context of a sentence that involves solitary confinement. Specifically, it outlines a justification for an automatic review process of the offender's carceral sentence based on an expanded and relational understanding of censure developed in the literature and proposes a two-step process to implement this review. |
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ISSN: | 1741-3095 |
DOI: | 10.1177/14624745231184077 |