The Violence of Incarceration
Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events and the inhumanity and degradation of domestic prisons within the 'allied' states, including the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ireland.\ The central theme is that the revelations of extreme...
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Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events and the inhumanity and degradation of domestic prisons within the 'allied' states, including the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ireland.The central theme is that the revelations of extreme brutality perpetrated by allied soldiers represent the inevitable end-product of domestic incarceration predicated on the use of extreme violence including lethal force. Exposing as fiction the claim to the political moral high ground made by western liberal democracies is critical because such claims animate and legitimate global actions such as the 'war on terror' and the indefinite detention of tens of thousands of people by the United States which accompanies it. The myth of moral virtue works to hide, silence, minimize and deny the brutal continuing history of violence and incarceration both within western countries and undertaken on behalf of western states beyond their national borders.
1 The Violence of Incarceration: An Introduction Jude McCulloch McCulloch, Jude Phil Scraton Scraton, Phil 12 An Afternoon in September 1983 Laurence McKeown McKeown, Laurence 193 Entombing Resistance: Institutional Power and Polarisation in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit Bree Carlton Carlton, Bree 374 Protests and 'Riots' in the Violent Institution Phil Scraton Scraton, Phil 605 Child Incarceration: Institutional Abuse, the Violent State and the Politics of Impunity Barry Goldson Goldson, Barry 866 Naked Power: Strip Searching in Women's Prisons Jude McCulloch McCulloch, Jude Amanda George George, Amanda 1077 The Imprisonment of Women and Girls in the North of Ireland: A 'Continuum of Violence' Linda Moore Moore, Linda Phil Scraton Scraton, Phil 1248 Neither Kind Nor Gentle: The Perils of 'Gender Responsive Justice' Cassandra Shaylor Shaylor, Cassandra 1459 The United States Military Prison: The Normalcy of Exceptional Brutality Avery F. Gordon Gordon, Avery F. 16410 A Reign of Penal Terror: United States Global Statecraft and the Technology of Punishment and Capture Dylan Rodriguez Rodriguez, Dylan 18711 Indigenous Incarceration: The Violence of Colonial Law and Justice Chris Cunneen Cunneen, Chris 20912 The Violence of Refugee Incarceration Jude McCulloch McCulloch, Jude Sharon Pickering Pickering, Sharon 22513 Preventing Torture and Casual Cruelty in Prisons Through Independent Monitoring Diana Medlicott Medlicott, Diana 244Contributors 261Index 265
