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Author: T. S. Clayton
Publisher: Matador
Published: 2022-01-27
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781800465640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrixton in the late 1990s. Delroy Brown, a young black man being held in police custody, dies in a confrontation in his cell with a police officer.
Author: Sherene Razack
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 144262891X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRazack s powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today s most pressing issues of social justice."
Author: Joshua M. Price
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015-07
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0813565596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson’s term for the utter isolation of slavery, to suffer “social death.” In Prison and Social Death, Joshua Price exposes the unexamined cost that prisoners pay while incarcerated and after release, drawing upon hundreds of often harrowing interviews conducted with people in prison, parolees, and their families. Price argues that the prison separates prisoners from desperately needed communities of support from parents, spouses, and children. Moreover, this isolation of people in prison renders them highly vulnerable to other forms of violence, including sexual violence. Price stresses that the violence they face goes beyond physical abuse by prison guards and it involves institutionalized forms of mistreatment, ranging from abysmally poor health care to routine practices that are arguably abusive, such as pat-downs, cavity searches, and the shackling of pregnant women. And social death does not end with prison. The condition is permanent, following people after they are released from prison. Finding housing, employment, receiving social welfare benefits, and regaining voting rights are all hindered by various legal and other hurdles. The mechanisms of social death, Price shows, are also informal and cultural. Ex-prisoners face numerous forms of distrust and are permanently stigmatized by other citizens around them. A compelling blend of solidarity, civil rights activism, and social research, Prison and Social Death offers a unique look at the American prison and the excessive and unnecessary damage it inflicts on prisoners and parolees.
Author: Jeff Waters
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780733322167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explosive behind-the-scenes look at the shameful standard of living on Palm Island, a microcosm of the worst of black-white relations in Australia, as told through the story of the death in custody of Mulrunji, and the protests and riots that followed. Australian author.
Author: Roger A. Mitchell Jr.
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2023-09-05
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1421447096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this? Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. We don't know how many people die in custody each year, whether in an encounter with police on the street, during transport, or while in jails, prisons, or detention centers. In order to make a real difference and address this human rights problem, researchers and policy makers need reliable data. In Death in Custody, Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, and Jay D. Aronson, PhD, share the stories of individuals who died in custody and chronicle the efforts of activists and journalists to uncover the true scope of deaths in custody. From Ida B. Wells's enumeration of extrajudicial lynchings more than a century ago to the Washington Post's current effort to count police shootings, the work of journalists and independent groups has always been more reliable than the state's official reports. Through historical analysis, Mitchell and Aronson demonstrate how government at all levels has intentionally avoided reporting death in custody data. Mitchell and Aronson outline a practical, achievable system for accurately recording and investigating these deaths. They argue for a straightforward public health solution: adding a simple checkbox to the US Standard Death Certificate that would create an objective way of recording whether a death occurred in custody. They also propose the development of national standards for investigating deaths in custody and the creation of independent regional and federal custodial death review panels. These tangible solutions would allow us to see the full scope of the problem and give us the chance to truly address it.
Author: Darrell L. Ross
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 810
ISBN-13: 1317199839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from an expert witness perspective, providing the insights necessary to ensure a complete investigation. Investigating a custodial death or an officer involved in a shooting presents unique and complex issues: estate, community, judicial, agency, involved officer, and public policy interests are all at stake. These types of deaths present various emerging medical, psychological, legal and liability, technical, and investigatory issues that must be addressed through a comprehensive investigation. This book is ideal for students in criminal investigation, death investigation, crime scene investigation, and special topic courses in custodial deaths and officer-involved shootings, as well as for death investigators, law enforcement officers, police administrators, and attorneys.
Author: Jo Easton
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1839090251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath in Custody shows that procedural justice theory is relevant for participation in processes investigating human rights violations. It includes key recommendations on how to ensure participation can be fair and effective.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780104005743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeaths in Custody : Third report of session 2004-05, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author: Aleksandr Khechumyan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1351371223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of elderly prisoners, and hence a rise in the number of prisoners dying in custody. In this book, Khechumyan questions whether respect for human dignity would justify releasing older and seriously ill prisoners. He also examines the normative justifications which could limit the administration of the imprisonment of the elderly and seriously ill. Khechumyan argues that factors such as a prisoner’s age and health could alter the balance between the legitimate goals of punishment, rendering the continued imprisonment ‘grossly disproportionate’. To address these issues, Articles 3 and 5 of the European Convention of Human Rights are extensively examined. This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the fields of Criminal Justice, Human Rights Law, and Gerontology.
Author: Hans Toch
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433829000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPROSE Award Finalist for Psychology This book synthesizes scholarly reflections with personal accounts from prison administrators and inmates to show the harsh reality of life on death row.
