Punishment and prisons currently have a high public, policy and academic profile at a time of record levels of imprisonment. In this context, and also within the context of citizenship debates, prisoners' rights have re-emerged as an important issue after a period of neglect since the 1970s. Current interest has been encouraged by developments over the last three decades, notably riots and disorder in English prisons with the subsequent Woolf Report, the development of public law for prisoners, the expansion of jurisprudence in the European Court of Human Rights and, more recently, the impact of rights jurisprudence following the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Human Rights Act 1998.
Prisoners' rights will be examined from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, asking whether it makes sense to talk of prisoners' rights. It will assess the benefits and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of projected future expansion of the prison population to record levels and substantial cuts in the criminal justice budget, and changes in the administration of justice, this work will be timely.
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Postgraduate and Undergraduate
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-415-61513-6 (9780415615136)
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Susan Easton is a barrister, reader in law at Brunel Law School, Brunel University, and Director of the Criminal Justice Research Group. She specialises in the areas of sentencing and penology, criminal justice, evidence and jurisprudence. She has published widely in leading scholarly journals on aspects of punishment and has written several books. She is the joint author of Sentencing and Punishment (Oxford University Press), as well as The Case for the Right to Silence (Ashgate) and The Problem of Pornography (Routledge.). She is the editor of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. She has previously taught at the Universities of Sussex and Sheffield, and in English prisons.
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Brunel University, UK.
1. Prisoners' Rights: From Social Death to Citizenship 2. The Historical Development of Prisoners' Rights: Rights versus Discretion 3. The Increasing Importance of International Human Rights Law and Standards 4. Prison Conditions 5. Procedural Justice 6. Contact with the Outside World 7. The Right to Equality 8. The Prisoner as Citizen: the Right to Vote 9. Conclusion: Making Room for Prisoners' Rights
