Incarceration and Human Rights : The Oxford Amnesty Lectures.

Intro -- Incarceration and human rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2007 -- Half Title Page -- The Oxford Amnesty Lectures -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Behind bars -- 1.Anne Owers: Prisons inspection and the protection of human rights -- 1a. Liora Lazarus: Inspecting the tail of the dog -- 2. Shami Chakrabarti: Asylum and incarceration: Shami Chakrabarti -- 2a. Roger Zetter: Curtailing freedoms, diminishing rights in Britain's asylum policy: a narrative of 'them' and 'us' -- 3. Lawrence O. Gostin: 'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment, or preventive confinement? -- 3a. Stephen Shute: Mental illness, preventive detention, prison, and human rights -- Part II:Beyond the prison -- 4. Loïc Wacquant: The use and abuse of the prison in the age of social insecurity -- 4a. Ian Loader: Journeying into, and away from, neoliberal penality -- 5. Thomas Mathiesen: Ten reasons for not building more prisons -- 5a. David Downes: Comments on Mathiesen's 'Ten reasons -- 6. Jack Mapanje: Creative incarceration and strategies for surviving freedom -- 6a. Jonny Steinberg: 'With no amulet to protect him': a South African response to Jack Mapanje -- Index.

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. Poets, practitioners, academics and theorists offer an illuminating range of perspectives for specialists and the general reader.

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