The globalization of supermax prisons
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New Brunswick, New Jersey
Rutgers University Press
[2013]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Critical issues in crime and society
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- ""Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional institutions, or to the safety of other inmates. Prisoners are usually restricted to their cells for up to twenty-three hours a day and typically have minimal contact with other inmates and correctional staff. Not only does the Federal Bureau of Prisons operate one of these facilities, but almost every state has either a supermax wing or stand-alone supermax prison. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons examines why nine advanced industrialized countries have adopted the supermax prototype, paying particular attention to the economic, social, and political processes that have affected each state. Featuring essays that look at the U.S.-run prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, this collection seeks to determine if the American model is the basis for the establishment of these facilities and considers such issues as the support or opposition to the building of a supermax and why opposition efforts failed; the allegation of human rights abuses within these prisons; and the extent to which the decision to build a supermax was influenced by developments in the United States. Additionally, contributors address such domestic matters as the role of crime rates, media sensationalism, and terrorism in each country's decision to build a supermax prison"--Publisher's website
- probing the meta-prison The globalization of supermax prisons an introduction The invention of the American supermax prison How Canada built its supermax prison Supermaxes south of the border The growth of the supermax option in Britain Analyzing the supermax prisons in the Netherlands the Dutch supermax Supermaximum prisons in South Africa From "secondary punishment" to "supermax" the human costs of high-security regimes in Australia The emergence of the supermax in New Zealand The rise of the supermax in Brazil Guantánamo America's foreign supermax in the fight against terrorism A globalized militarized prison juggernaut the case of Abu Ghraib globalization, innovation, or neither? Loïc Wacquant
- Jeffrey Ian Ross
- Jeffrey Ian Ross
- Jeffrey Ian Ross
- Patrick O'Day and Thomas O'Connor
- Angela West Crews
- Sandra L. Resodihardjo
- Fran Buntman and Lukas Muntingh
- David Brown and Bree Carlton
- Greg Newbold
- José de Jesus Filho
- Jeffrey Ian Ross and Dawn L. Rothe
- Dawn L. Rothe
- Jeffrey Ian Ross Foreword Conclusion