Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies In Detention, Incarceration And Solitary Confinement (Palgrave Studies In Prisons And Penology)

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.

• | Author: Keramet Reiter, Alexa Koenig
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 06, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 279 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137441143
• | ISBN-13: 9781137441140