{"product_id":"solitary-confinement-9780190947927","title":"Solitary Confinement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty it is arguably the most punitive and dangerous intervention available to state authorities in democratic nations. Nevertheless, in the United States there is currently an estimated 80-100,000 prisoners in small cells for more than 22 hours per day with little or no social contact and no physical contact visits with family or friends. Even in Scandinavia, thousands of prisoners are placed in solitary confinement every year and with an alarming frequency. These facts have spawned international interest in this topic and a growing international reform movement, which includes researchers, litiga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors of this volume argue eloquently and convincingly, from varied disciplines and perspectives, that it is time to end solitary confinement, and they provide a vision of a carceral system devoid of solitary as well as a road map for getting there. Jules Lobel ... was the lead attorney in a historic class action lawsuit, Ashker v. Governor of California [and t]his volume includes chapters by many of the experts who testified in the Ashker litigation ... This volume is unprecedented in the comprehensiveness and rigor of its treatment of the evidence of negative effects of solitary confinement, and the safe alternatives to solitary that are proven and available. The writing is engaging and accessible. The impact of this book, like the impact of the Ashker litigation, will serve to advance the struggle to end the torture of solitary confinement in the USA and, one hopes, worldwide. * Terry A. Kupers, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors  Acknowledgments  Chapter 1: Solitary Confinement-from Extreme Isolation to Prison Reform  Jules Lobel and Peter Scharff Smith    PART ONE: Two Centuries of Solitary Confinement    Chapter 2: Solitary Confinement-Effects and Practices from the Nineteenth Century until Today  Peter Scharff Smith    Chapter 3: Global Perspectives on Solitary Confinement-Practices and Reforms Worldwide  Manfred Nowak    Chapter 4: Solitary Confinement Across Borders  Sharon Shalev    Chapter 5: The Rise of Supermax Imprisonment in the United States  Keramet Reiter    Chapter 6: Not Isolating Isolation  Judith Resnik    Chapter 7: Torture, Solitary Confinement and International Law  Juan E. Mendez    PART TWO: Mind, Body and Soul - The Harms and Experience of Solitary Confinement    Chapter 8: Solitary Confinement, Loneliness, and Psychological Harm  Craig Haney    Chapter 9: First Do No Harm: Applying the Harms-to-Benefit Patient Safety Framework to Solitary Confinement  Brie Williams and Cyrus Ahalt    Chapter 10: Mythbusting Solitary Confinement in Jail  Homer Venters    Chapter 11: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Health  Louise Hawkley    Chapter 12: The Brain in Isolation  A Neuroscientist's Perspective on Solitary Confinement  Huda Akil    Chapter 13: Use of Animals to Study the Neurobiological Effects of Isolation: Historical and Current Perspectives  Michael J. Zigmond and Richard Jay Smeyne   Chapter 14: Sharing Experiences of Solitary Confinement-Prisoners and Staff  Robert King, Dolores Canales, Jack Morris, Lieutenant Armondo Sosa    PART THREE: Prison reform, prison litigation and human rights    Chapter 15: The Management of High Security Prisoners: Alternatives to Solitary Confinement  Andrew Coyle    Chapter 16: Resisting Supermax: Rediscovering a Humane Approach to the Management of High Risk Prisoners  Jamie Bennett    Chapter 17: Prisoners Association as an Alternative to Solitary Confinement-Lessons Learned From a Norwegian High Security Prison  Are Høidal    Chapter 18: Colorado Ends Prolonged, Indeterminate Solitary Confinement  Rick Raemisch    Chapter 19: Reflections on North Dakota's Sustained Solitary Confinement Reform   Leann Bertsch    Chapter 20: Solitary Confinement in Canada  Joseph J. Arvay, and Alison M. Latimer    Chapter 21: \"Loneliness is a destroyer of humanity.\"  Jesse Wilson, Held in Solitary Confinement at United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado  Amy Fettig and David C. Fathi    Chapter 22: Litigation to End Indeterminate Solitary Confinement in California: The Role of Inter-Disciplinary and Comparative Experts  Jules Lobel","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083813777751,"sku":"9780190947927","price":114.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190947927.jpg?v=1762203902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/solitary-confinement-9780190947927","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}