Essays about: "prisons"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 43 essays containing the word prisons.
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16. Danger, Docility and the Denial of Death: On Productive Forces of Violent Practices in Prison
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis establishes an understanding of violence as discourse in the setting of Turkish prisons, during the death fast in the early 2000s. It uncovers discourses embedded in the acts of torture, hunger striking and force-feeding, each able to produce certain kinds of subjects. READ MORE
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17. Landskapsarkitekturen bakom galler
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : I Sverige sitter cirka 4400 personer frihetsberövade på någon av Sveriges fängelser. Frihetsberövandet utgör en belastning för individen och kan utlösa krissituationer med självskadande handlingar som följd. READ MORE
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18. The Agony of The Supermax Confinement: Indefinite Isolation in The Name of Security
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The main area of inquiry for this thesis is super-maximum security prisons or as commonly referred to “supermax prisons”. First, the thesis traces the shift from the use of physical punishment to the use of disciplinary measures in punitive institutions and the development of the modern prison until it reaches its latest form as embodied in the supermax model. READ MORE
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19. Captivating Architecture
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : The project concerns the subject of prisons. How should architects handle buildings that no one wants to enter and should comfort still be the aim of the building? These questions lead me to define my project with two main research questions: ”What is the purpose of a prison?” and ”How can the architecture aid the purpose of a prison?” Prisons are generally known to have four major purposes: Retribution, Prevention, Deterrance and Rehabilitation. READ MORE
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20. The Complexity of Rehabilitation in Open and Closed Prison Setting
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : In Germany, prisoners have a constitutional right to rehabilitation (“resocialization”). In the Lebach judgment of 1973, a landmark ruling that served as the basis for the 1976 Prison Act (Strafvollzugsgesetz [StVollzG]), rehabilitation was seen by the German Federal Constitutional Court as part of the guaranteed rights of prisoners to retain their human dignity (Dünkel & van Zyl Smit, 2007, p. READ MORE