The Violence oflncarceration was conceived in 2005 during Phil Scraton's visiting scholarship at Monash University, Melbourne. Following a public lecture at the Trades Hall, the home of struggle and resistance in the City, on the impunity of the powerful, we agreed on plans for two distinct but related projects. The first was to approach the international journal,Social Justice, with a proposal for a special issue on Deaths in Custody and Detention.

Acknowledgments

1 The Violence of Incarceration：An Introduction

 JUDE McCUILOCH AND PHIl SCRATON

2 An Afternoon in September 1983

 LAURENCE McKEOWN

3 Entombing Resistance：Institutional Power and Polarisation in the Jika Jika High—Security Unit

 BREE CARLTON

4 Protests and‘Riots’in the Violent lnstitution

 PHIlSCRATON

5 Child Incarceration：Institutional Abuse，the Vi01ent State and the Politics of Impunity

 BARRY GOLDSON

6 Naked Power：Strip Searching in Women's Prisons

 JUDE MCCULLOCH AND AMANDA GEORGE

7 The Imprisonment of Women and Girls in the North 0f Ireland：A‘Continuum of Violence’

 LINDA MOORE AND PHIL SCRATON

8 Neither Kind Nor Gentle：The Perils of Gender Responsive Justice， CASSANDRA SHAYIOR

9 The United States Military Prison：The Normalcy of Exceptional Brutality

 AVERY FGORDON

10 A Reign of Penal Terror：United States Global Statecraft and the Technology of Punishment and Capture

 DYLAN RODRfGUEZ

11 Indigenous Incarceration：The Violence of Colonial Law and Justice

 CHRIS CUNNEEN

12 The Violence of Refugee Incarceration

 JUDE MCCULLOCH AND SHARON PICKERING

13 Preventing Torture and Casual Cruelty in Prisons Through

 Independent Monitoring

 DIANA MEDLICOTT

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