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The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Melissa McCarthy
ISBN: 9780719081811
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
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This is a collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection of incarceration and human rights. Each year, Oxford Amnesty Lectures invites speakers of international repute to consider various facets of a topic. These lectures, and invited responses, form this book. The book offers a diversity of perspectives: from the inside view of Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons to the words of a poet and former political prisoner…
A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of incarceration? And conversely, what can prisons, their hard facts and the ideas underpinning them, tell us about human rights? The book offers a diversity of voices: from the inside view of Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons to the words of a poet and former political prisoner; from an international policy overview of abuses of the mentally ill to a socio-economic reading of race and class in prisons. This range of approaches offers a uniquely rounded view of the topic, while each contributor's eminence in their field gives great depth of expertise.
| ISBN | 0719081815 | | Pages | 176 | | ISBN13 | 9780719081811
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 277 | | Publisher | Manchester University Press | | Published in | Manchester | | Imprint | Manchester University Press | | Series title | Oxford Amnesty Lectures | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 25 May 2010 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 323.32927 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Foreword | | | | | | Notes on contributors | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | | | Part I: Behind bars | | 7 | | 1 | | Prisons inspection and the protection of human rights | | 9 | | 1a | | Inspecting the tail of the dog by Anne Owers | | 26 | | 2 | | Asylum and incarceration by Liora Lazarus | | 33 | | 2a | | Curtailing freedoms, diminishing rights in Britain's asylum policy: a narrative of 'them and 'us' by Shami Chakrabarti | | 42 | | 3 | | 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment, or preventive confinement? by Roger Zetter | | 49 | | 3a | | Mental illness, preventive detention, prison, and human rights by Lawrence O. Gostin | | 61 | | | | Part II: Beyond the prison by Stephen Shute | | 69 | | 4 | | The use and abuse of prison in the age of social insecurity by Stephen Shute | | 71 | | 4a | | Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality by Loic Wacquant | | 91 | | 5 | | Ten reasons for not building more prisons by Ian Loader | | 101 | | 5a | | Comments on Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons...' by Thomas Mathiesen | | 119 | | 6 | | Creative incarceration and strategies for surviving freedom by David Downes | | 127 | | 6a | | 'With no amulet to protect him': a South African response to Jack Mapanje by Jack Mapanje | | 145 | | | | Index by Jonny Steinberg | | 150 |
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