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Keramet Reiter
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 44
Citations - 726
Keramet Reiter is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison & Solitary confinement. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 43 publications receiving 562 citations. Previous affiliations of Keramet Reiter include University of California, Los Angeles & University of California.
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Parole, snitch, or die: California’s supermax prisons and prisoners, 1997–2007:
TL;DR: This research provides one of the first evaluations of how supermaxes function, in terms of whom they detain and for how long, and how these patterns relate to the originally articulated purposes of the institutions.
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Making Windows in Walls: Strategies for Prison Research
TL;DR: The authors examines the relationship between prison structure, researcher access to prisons, and scholarship about prisons and argues that prisons resist scrutiny at two stages: first, prisons are structurally and bureaucratically closed off from research; second, prison researchers are emotionally disconnected from their work.
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The Pelican Bay Hunger Strike: Resistance within the Structural Constraints of a US Supermax Prison
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Psychological Distress in Solitary Confinement: Symptoms, Severity, and Prevalence in the United States, 2017-2018
Keramet Reiter,Joseph Ventura,David Lovell,Dallas Augustine,Melissa Barragan,Thomas R. Blair,Kelsie Chesnut,Pasha Dashtgard,Gabriela Gonzalez,Natalie A. Pifer,Justin D. Strong +10 more
TL;DR: Understanding disproportionate psychopathology matters for developing prevention policies and addressing the unique needs of people who have experienced solitary confinement, an extreme element of mass incarceration.