title: The cruel and unusual phenomenology of solitary confinement.
abstract: What happens when subjects are deprived of intersubjective contact? This paper looks closely at the phenomenology and psychology of one example of that deprivation: solitary confinement. It also puts the phenomenology and psychology of solitary confinement to use in the legal context. Not only is there no consensus on whether solitary confinement is a "cruel and unusual punishment," there is no consensus on the definition of the term "cruel" in the use of that legal phrase. I argue that we can find a moral consensus on the meaning of "cruelty" by looking specifically at the phenomenology and psychology of solitary confinement.
authors: Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis Memphis, TN, USA ; School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield Hertfordshire, UK ; Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
authors: Shaun
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authors: Gallagher
keywords: cruelty; induced autism; intersubjectivity; self; solitary confinement