Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Fear Suffused Hell-holes: The Architecture of Extreme Punishment....Pages 14-31
The Limits of Punishment....Pages 32-49
Immigration, Detention, and the Expansion of Penal Power in the United Kingdom....Pages 50-67
(Im)migrating Penal Excess: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Case of Maricopa County, Arizona....Pages 68-90
A New ‘Ecology of Cruelty’? The Changing Shape of Maximum-security Custody in England and Wales....Pages 91-114
Seclusive Space: Crisis Confinement and Behavior Modification in Canadian Forensic Psychiatric Settings....Pages 115-134
Normalizing Exceptions: Solitary Confinement and the Micro-politics of Risk/Need in Canada....Pages 135-155
Making Visible Invisible Suffering: Non-deliberative Agency and the Bodily Rhetoric of Tamms Supermax Prisoners....Pages 156-176
Punishing Mental Illness: Trans-institutionalization and Solitary Confinement in the United States....Pages 177-196
Between Protection and Punishment: The Irregular Arrival Regime in Canadian Refugee Law....Pages 197-219
From Man to Beast: Social Death at Guantánamo....Pages 220-241
Afterword....Pages 242-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-255