Now in its third edition, Prison Law is the leading text in its field. It offers comprehensive coverage of the law and the remedies available to prisoners, including complaints procedures, civil claims, judicial review, and claims under the Human Rights Act. Both domestic and international avenues of redress are explained in detail. The book covers all aspects of prison life, from categorization and allocation, to living conditions, access to the outside world, transfer and repatriation, discipline, and the procedures governing the release of fixed term prisoners and those serving life sentences. The book offers fully up to date coverage of relevant domestic decisions under the Human Rights Act, as well as the caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights. The Prison Rules 1999 are explained and analysed, as are the far-reaching decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on the mandatory life sentence and the prison discipline system. It concludes with a new section reviewing current trends in penal practice.
Critical analysis and historical perspective are combined with up to date and practical guidance to provide a book which will be invaluable to both practitioners and academics.
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Each and every prison library should contain this book. It is a neverending source of information and even inspiration and, even if it does not quite make the 'essential reading' list, then it should certainly be on the 'essential reference book' list. Prison Service Journal Save perhaps, for The Prisons Handbook, there is not a publication on my bookshelves more referred to than Prison Law. Prison Service Journal
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Barristers and solicitors representing or advising prisoners and their families, the judiciary, prison library users, prison governers and officers, probation officers, academics and students interested in human rights, criminology, penology, sociology, academic libraries in the UK and worldwide.
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Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 171 mm
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978-0-19-925899-4 (9780199258994)
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STEPHEN LIVINGSTONE, Professor of Law, Queen's University Belfast, TIM OWEN QC, Barrister, Matrix Chambers, and ALISON MACDONALD, Barrister, Matrix Chambers and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
1. The Legal Framework and Administrative Structure of the Prison System; 2. Avenues of Redress: Domestic Law; 3. International Law Avenues of Redress; 4. Security Categorization and Allocation; 5. Living Conditions in Prison; 6. Healthcare in Prisons; 7. Access to the Outside World and Maintenance of Family Contacts; 8. Inter-Prison Transfers and the Repatriation of Prisoners From Abroad; 9. Prison Discipline; 10. Maintaining Good Order and Discipline; 11. Women Prisoners; 12. Release from Prison: Fixed Term Prisoners; 13. Mandatory Lifers; 14. Discretionary Lifers and HMP Detainees; 15. Detention Under the Immigration Act; 16. Conclusions: Prisons and the Law; APPENDICES; Appendix 1: Prison Act 1952; Appendix 2: Prison Rules 1999 as amended by Prison (Amendment) Rules 2002; Appendix 3: Young Offender Institution Rules 2000 as amended by Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2002; Appendix 4: Human Rights Act 1998; Appendix 5: European Convention on Human Rights; Appendix 6: European Prison Rules 1987; Appendix 7: European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Appendix 8: Criminal Justice Act 1991 (Part II), Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (Part II, Ch II), Parole Board Rules 1997; Appendix 9: Directions to the Parole Board under the Criminal Justice Act 1991, s32(6) and Accompanying Training Guidance; Appendix 10: Ministerial Statements on the Life Sentence; Appendix 11: Framework Document for the Prison Service
