Extreme Punishment

Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

• Author(s): Keramet Reiter, Alexa Koenig,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 255
• ISBN_10: 1137441151
  ISBN_13: 9781137441157
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Penology , Social Science / Criminology , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Social Science / Sociology / General , Law / International , Political Science / General , Political Science / Human Rights ,

Description:... This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.