Please note that this event will be recorded, if you do not wish to be part of the recording, please feel free to turn your cameras off once the talk begins. The talk will be made available on the Criminology website and YouTube channel at a later date.
30 years of solitary confinement
Drawing on her own work including field research in New Zealand, England and Wales, and the United States, Sharon reflects in this seminar on some of the achievements, and remaining challenges, around the use and international regulation of solitary confinement practices in the last 30 years.
Please note: The event will be a Hybrid event, but only available as 'in person' to Oxford Criminology staff and students with limited capacity.
Please note: The event will be a Hybrid event, but only available as 'in person' to Oxford Criminology staff and students with limited capacity.
Registrations will close at 12 midday on Wednesday 27th April. Please only use a university or organisational address for registration. The link will be sent to you later that afternoon.
Biography:
Dr Sharon Shalev is an international expert on the uses and consequences of solitary confinement and other restrictive practices. She works as an independent consultant in the areas of human rights and prisons and holds Research Associate positions at the Centre for Criminology at Oxford University, and at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She manages the informational website www.solitaryconfinement.org and has published widely on the subject. Publications include the Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement - a guide for practitioners on the health effects of solitary confinement and the legal framework and international human rights standards regulating its use; a prize winning book on the US ‘Supermax’ prisons, and; independent expert reports on solitary confinement practices in England and Wales and in New Zealand.
