Essays about: "solitary confinement"

Found 1 essay containing the words solitary confinement.

  1. 1. The Agony of The Supermax Confinement: Indefinite Isolation in The Name of Security

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Malak Taleb; [2019]
    Keywords : supermax prisons; solitary confinement; human rights; torture; Foucault; Agamben; Goffman;

    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