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Extreme Punishment

Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Keramet Reiter

    1. University of California, Irvine, USA

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  2. Alexa Koenig

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexa Koenig, Keramet Reiter
    Pages 1-13

  3. Fear Suffused Hell-holes: The Architecture of Extreme Punishment

    • Yvonne Jewkes
    Pages 14-31

  4. The Limits of Punishment

    • Emma Kaufman, Sam Weiss
    Pages 32-49

  5. Immigration, Detention, and the Expansion of Penal Power in the United Kingdom

    • Mary Bosworth, Sarah Turnbull
    Pages 50-67

  6. (Im)migrating Penal Excess: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Case of Maricopa County, Arizona

    • Mona Lynch
    Pages 68-90

  7. A New ‘Ecology of Cruelty’? The Changing Shape of Maximum-security Custody in England and Wales

    • Alison Liebling
    Pages 91-114

  8. Seclusive Space: Crisis Confinement and Behavior Modification in Canadian Forensic Psychiatric Settings

    • Stuart J. Murray, Dave Holmes
    Pages 115-134

  9. Normalizing Exceptions: Solitary Confinement and the Micro-politics of Risk/Need in Canada

    • Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Amy Klassen
    Pages 135-155

  10. Making Visible Invisible Suffering: Non-deliberative Agency and the Bodily Rhetoric of Tamms Supermax Prisoners

    • Nadya Pittendrigh
    Pages 156-176

  11. Punishing Mental Illness: Trans-institutionalization and Solitary Confinement in the United States

    • Keramet Reiter, Thomas Blair
    Pages 177-196

  12. Between Protection and Punishment: The Irregular Arrival Regime in Canadian Refugee Law

    • Efrat Arbel
    Pages 197-219

  13. From Man to Beast: Social Death at Guantánamo

    • Alexa Koenig
    Pages 220-241

  14. Afterword

    • Hadar Aviram
    Pages 242-248

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255
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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.

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“The authors in the anthology contribute from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, generating nuanced approaches and revealing common themes. The book is best for scholars in law and social sciences, as well as criminal justice practitioners, policy makers, and advocates who are interested in the limits of the law, the transformation of punishment, and the lived experiences of people subjected to them.” (Valerie King, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, law.ox.ac.uk, September, 2016)


'A deeply disturbing and very powerful anthology on the use of "extreme punishments" in the United States, England, and Canada. Professors Reiter and Koenig present a collection of excellent essays that covers topics such as the use of solitary confinement, supermax prisons, immigration detentions, and the "social death" of detention in Guantanamo. The book is unique and especially important in showing how this transcends a single nation and how it involves many different forms of punishments that are cruel and inhumane. This book deserves a wide readership and should be the catalyst for long overdue change.'

- Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, School of Law, University of California, Irvine, USA

Phantasms of criminality drive our elected officials, our police, our state, our nation - and, as we learn in these essays, the "free" world. Eye-opening and trail-blazing in its interdisciplinary contributions,Extreme Punishment confronts the penal and disciplinary regimes of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. And in the process, these exemplary writers and scholars take us on a chilling journey through the terrain of detention and punishment. Groundbreaking in its research and documentation, this bracing collection forces us to think again - and in unexpected ways - about how law abets and sustains a global network of military, immigration, and penal polices, unprecedented in their severity and reach.'

- Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, USA.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Irvine, USA

    Keramet Reiter

  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Alexa Koenig

About the editors

Efrat Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada. Hadar Aviram, University of California, USA. Thomas Blair, University of California, USA. Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford, UK. Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada. Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK. Emma Kaufman, Yale Law School, USA. Amy Klassen, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, UK. Mona Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA. Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, USA. Stuart J. Murray, University of Ottawa, Canada. Nadya Pittendrigh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Keramet Reiter, University of California, USA. Sarah Turnbull, University of Oxford. Sam Weiss, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice, USA.

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