RT Article
T1 Solitary confinement as state harm: Reimagining sentencing in light of dynamic censure and state blame
JF Punishment & society
VO 26
IS 1
SP 72
OP 90
A1 Manikis, Marie
A2 Doiron, Nicholas
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1871222346
AB 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.
K1 sentence reviews
K1 harms
K1 State
K1 Solitary Confinement
DO 10.1177/14624745231184077