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Self-isolation as torture: Autonomy, legal imagination and suffering in prison

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Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Abstract

Criminology & Criminal Justice, Ahead of Print.
This article explores how self-isolation in Danish prisons engages the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment. Despite international criticism and established harms associated with solitary confinement more broadly, under Danish law, self-...