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Detention-as-spectacle [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Political Sociology, 2016
Using a combination of migration studies, political sociology, and policy studies, this paper explores the contradictions and violence of immigration detention, its architectures, and its audiences. The concept of “detention-as-spectacle” is developed to
Mainwaring, Cetta   +1 more
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In Aid of Removal: Due Process Limits on Immigration Detention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In this Article, I seek to demonstrate the radical consequences that taking due process seriously would have for immigration detention as currently practiced.
Cole, David
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Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act 1983 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Background Black and minority ethnic (BME) patients are disproportionately detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. There has been no systematic exploration of differences within and between ethnic groups, nor of the explanations put forward for this ...
Churchill, Rachel   +3 more
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After Guantanamo: War, Crime, and Detention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Neither the law of war nor the criminal law, alone or in combination, provides an adequate legal structure for responding to the most serious threats posed by Al Qaeda and similar groups.
Eberhard, Frances A.   +2 more
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Black and minority ethnic people are more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 : no clear evidence why [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Question: Compared with White people, how frequently are people from Black and Minority Ethnic groups detained under the Mental Health Act 1983? Outcomes: Rates of compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act. METHODS Design: Systematic review with
Singh, Swaran P.
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Standard of proof, unpredictable behaviour and the High Court of Australia's verdict on preventive detention laws [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Preventive detention laws authorize courts to order the continued detention in prison of a person who has served their allocated term of imprisonment, but who are thought to be at risk of re-offending if released.
Gray, Anthony
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Detention by Any Other Name [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
An unaffordable bail requirement has precisely the same effect as an order of pretrial detention: the accused person is jailed pending trial. It follows as a logical matter that an order requiring an unaffordable bail bond as a condition of release ...
Forslund, Monica   +1 more
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Locked Up But Not Forgotten: Opening Access to Family & Community in the Immigration Detention System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Obama administration has committed itself to reforming the nation's expansive and controversial immigration detention system. In August of 2009, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (
Carolyn Corrado, Ruben Loyo
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Is Preventive Detention Morally Worse than Quarantine? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In some jurisdictions, the institutions of criminal justice may subject individuals who have committed crimes to preventive detention. By this, I mean detention of criminal offenders (i) who have already been punished to (or beyond) the point that no ...
Douglas, Thomas
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Immigration-Related Detention: Current Legislative Issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
[Excerpt] As Congress considers reforms to the nation’s immigration system, the detention of noncitizens (aliens) in the United States will likely be an issue.
Siskin, Alison
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