... medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and it explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system...

... Regime Civil Death Organizing Protest movements Reforms In the late summer of 2008 I attended a meeting on the west side of Chicago. The focus was to debate a proposed zoning bylaw change to permit a community-based organization, St. Leonard’s Ministries (SLM), to convert a building in the vicinity...

... restorative justice Berlant Lauren privatization charter schools shadow state state Audre Lorde Project Koss Mary RESTORE Californians United for a Responsible Budget Innocence Childhood studies Racial Justice Critical Prison Studies Abolition Carceral Regime Civil Death Organizing Feminisms...

... objection under domestic Turkish law. In this context, it focuses on the criminalisation of objection (‘civil death’), with particular attention paid to Turkey’s compliance with international standards on the following key aspects: the right to freedom of expression, the arbitrary detention of conscientious...

...This chapter examines the extent to which death has shaped life under imprisonment. It considers the rise of an elaborate machinery of civil death—comprised of laws, jurisprudence, institutional practices, and affective structures—in the course of the nineteenth century, coterminous with the rise...

... Institutes MacGregor chiefs monarchy and kingship Sophia Electress of Hanover Treaty and Acts of Union land deathbed law of Succession law English law Canon law Scottish Reformation Heritable succession Moveable succession Legal rights Wills Civil death Deathbed When Scotland joined...

... legal fiction diversity rationale time of slavery anti-discrimination law envy civil death Civil Rights Cases of 1883 John Marshall Harlan The oscillation between then and now distills the past four hundred years into one definitive moment. And, at the same time, the still-unfolding narrative...

... agency epistemic self empowerment civil death imprisonment social silence prison protests Black Power movement ACT UP Mansbridge Jane Marriage Equality movement oppositional consciousness Oppositional Consciousness Mansbridge police brutality Queer Nation single issue social movements...

...This chapter analyzes what happens to persons in two cases: the free person of property who commits a felony and undergoes civil death and the enslaved person, who, as bearer of “negative personhood,” has undergone social death. In most instances, though the person declared civilly dead has...

... to make sense of their social situation and their afflictions. It argues that patients responded to the enforced anonymity and “civil death” of asylum life by mimicking an elite, literary anonymity practiced by genteel writers of the period. Rather than using the journal to voice coded protests against...

... of civil death. Beeston Nottinghamshire Cross William Patterson Annabel Scripture sermons Watson Thomas Bartholomean attitudes to Interregnum Morrissey Mary Pooley Roger Potter Lois Egypt Pauline scripture Porter Robert Thorne George Wilson John F Bates William Bladon Thomas Jenkyn...

... Childhood studies Racial Justice Critical Prison Studies Abolition Carceral Regime Civil Death Organizing Feminisms Queer politics Facing what news outlets proclaimed one of the worst fiscal crises in the history of Illinois, in 2011 the governor, Pat Quinn, targeted a number of prisons for closure...

... Moshe Liat Ben Sentencing Project affect carceral state National Employment Law Center After Prison Roadblocks to Reentry “ban the box ” race Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Allard Patricia civil death Higher Education Act Patterson Orlando Personal Responsibility and Work...

...This chapter examines letter writing as a formal, internally produced limit to the erosion of prisoners’ First Amendment right to expression. It details how mass incarceration and its administration of various types of civil death, runs up against an epistolary expressivity that is neither...