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| Title |
The cruel and unusual phenomenology of solitary confinement
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00585 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Shaun Gallagher |
| 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. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 38 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 11% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| Denmark | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 24 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 25 | 66% |
| Scientists | 12 | 32% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 87 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 84 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 14% |
| Researcher | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 15 | 17% |
| Unknown | 17 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 24 | 28% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 13% |
| Philosophy | 7 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 15 | 17% |
| Unknown | 23 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 March 2024.
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