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Incarceration and Human Rights

The Oxford Amnesty Lectures

Melissa McCarthy editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:1st Jun '10

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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: 9780719081811

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 9mm

Weight: 245g

168 pages