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Solitary Confinement

By Wanda Teays

Solitary Confinement

By Wanda Teays

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This book journeys into the dark territory of solitary confinement. It examines its practice in prisons, jails, immigration detention facilities, and even schools. It looks at international ethics codes such as that of the World Medical Association, the World Health Organization, and the Declaration of Tokyo, all of which describe the prolonged use of solitary confinement as akin to torture. The author shows how the philosophical theories of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, John Rawls, and others provide an ethical framework for examining solitary confinement. With the aid of contemporary ethicists like Tom Beauchamp, Michael Boylan, Michel Foucault, Claudia Card and Nel Noddings, it also shows how we have the tools for dismantling a practice long overdue for reform. Students, faculty, and the general public will find Solitary Confinement: Philosophical Perspectives a call for change of an urgent human rights issue. Given that thousands of people have been subjected to such extreme isolation and sensory deprivation, this quest warrants our utmost consideration.
Product details
Number of Pages:
184
Release Date:
2025-07-31
Publication Date:
2025-07-31
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3031965655
ISBN13:
9783031965654
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
446 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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