Incarceration and Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Melissa McCarthy - Manchester University Press, 2010
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This book is a collection of essays and
responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the
intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights
concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of
incarceration? And conversely, what can prisons, their hard facts and the ideas
underpinning them, tell us about human rights? The book offers a diversity of
voices: from the inside view of Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons to the words
of a poet and former political prisoner; from an international policy overview
of abuses of the mentally ill to a socio-economic reading of race and class in
prisons. This range of approaches offers a uniquely rounded view of the topic,
while each contributor’s eminence in their field gives great depth of
expertise.
