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Solitary Confinement: Lived Experiences and Ethical Implications

Autor David Polizzi
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mar 2017
Why is solitary confinement still used in today’s world? Does it help in the rehabilitation of offenders? And how does our justification of its use affect policy? Answering these questions and posing many others, this is the first volume to consider both the developmental history of solitary confinement and the lived experience of those in confinement. Using philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of embodied subjectivity, this book provides firsthand accounts of the inhumane practice of solitary confinement, deepening our appreciation of the relationship between penal strategy and its effect on human beings. David Polizzi draws on his own experiences as a psychological specialist in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and interviews conducted in connection with the Guardian's 6x9 project—a virtual reality solitary confinement experience—to explore what the intentional aspect of this almost uninhabitable type of imprisonment says about any democratic society that continues to justify it. Aimed at policy makers, Solitary Confinement challenges the social attitudes that uncritically condone its use.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447337539
ISBN-10: 1447337530
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Notă biografică

David Polizzi is associate professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Indiana State University. He is the author of A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime, also published by Policy Press.

Cuprins

Dedication
Acknowledgements
1 The experience of solitary confinement: some beginning reflections
2 A very brief history of solitary confinement and the supermax penitentiary
3 The developmental history of solitary and supermax confinement: toward a phenomenology of the state of exception
4 The Supreme Court, solitary confinement, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment
5 From the other side of the door: the lived experience of solitary confinement
6 Some closing reflections
References
Index
 

Recenzii

“Traces the historical development of the use of solitary confinement in the United States and describes personal accounts of individuals who have experienced this type of confinement in order to challenge its continued use in the modern age.”

“Reveals the psychological harm caused by solitary confinement and critically examines the philosophical assumptions surrounding this extreme and cruel form of punishment. . . . An insightful and important study.”