The globalization of supermax prisons / edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross ; foreword by Loïc Wacquant.

"Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional ins...

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Other Authors: Ross, Jeffrey Ian (Editor), Wacquant, Loïc J. D. (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
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