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Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison. By Lorna A. Rhodes (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2004, xiv + 315pp. £32.50 hb)
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This article is published in British Journal of Criminology.The article was published on 2006-09-01. It has received 262 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prison.read more
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Documents and bureaucracy
TL;DR: The authors surveys anthropological and other social research on bureaucratic documents and argues that documents are not simply instruments of bureaucratic organizations, but rather are constitutive of bureaucratic rules, ideologies, knowledge, practices, subjectivities, objects, outcomes, even the organizations themselves.
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The Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison Inmates: A Brief History and Review of the Literature
TL;DR: The effects of solitary confinement on prisoners have been extensively studied in the literature as mentioned in this paper and it has been shown that for many prisoners, the adverse effects are substantial, depending on duration and circumstances and mediated by prisoners individual characteristics.
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Rethinking social recovery in schizophrenia: what a capabilities approach might offer.
TL;DR: An alternative framework for what recovery might mean is provided, one drawn from disability studies and Sen's capabilities approach, which could convert flaccid doctrine into useful guidelines and tools for public mental health.
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Prison Visitation and Recidivism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ propensity score matching analyses to examine whether visitation of various types and in varying amounts, or dosage, is negatively associated with recidivism outcomes among a cohort of released prisoners.
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The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners in Supermax Units: Reviewing What We Know and Recommending What Should Change
TL;DR: The psychological consequences of short- and long-term solitary confinement for prisoners in the United States subjected to administrative or disciplinary segregation are examined and a set of recommendations for the reform of secure housing is presented.