The Violence of Incarceration - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415963133 ISBN 13 : 9780415963138

Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Drawing on primary research in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK this volume provides a disturbing and provocative insight into the brutality of incarceration in 'civilised' states and its links to the revelations of torture and abuse in the 'war on terror'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology in the Institute of Criminology and criminal Justice, Queen's University, Belfast. His research and publications include deaths in custody, prison protests, state authoritarianism and criminalization and children's rights. His most recent books are Hillsborough: The Truth (Mainstream), Beyond September 11(Pluto) and Power, Conflict and Criminalisation (Routledge)

Jude McCulloch is Associate Professor in Criminology at Monash University, Australia. Her research interrogates institutionalised state violence. She has published extensively on deaths in custody, police violence, police shootings and paramilitary policing. Her recent work focuses on state crime in the 'war on terror'. She is the author of Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia (Melbourne University Press).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415963133
• ISBN 13: 9780415963138
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Éditeur: Scraton Phil, McCulloch Jude
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible