Overview
- Explores human rights, social justice and incarceration using comparative case material from UK, Australia and NZ
- Examines groups that are disproportionately affected through incarceration: indigenous populations, children, women, those with disabilities and refugees/‘non-citizens’
- Analyses how human rights are secured for those incarcerated e.g. community activism, media engagement and UN collaboration
- Presents an opportunity for a more hopeful vision of human rights and incarceration
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It presents original case-study material on groups that are disproportionately affected by incarceration, including indigenous populations, children, women, those with disabilities, and refugees or ‘non-citizens’. The book considers how and why human rights are eroded, but also how they can be built and sustained through social, creative, cultural, legal, political and personal acts. It establishes the need for pragmatic reforms as well as the abolition of incarceration.
Contributors consider what has, or might, work to secure rights for incarcerated populations, and they critically analyse human rights in their legal, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts. In covering this ground, the book presents a re-invigorated vision of human rights in relation to incarceration. After all, human rights are not static principles; they have to be developed, fought over and engaged with.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Elizabeth Stanley is Reader in Criminology, and Rutherford Discovery Fellow, at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is an established, internationally recognised scholar in the areas of human rights and state crime. She was included in the recent substantive Handbook on Human Rights, and contributed the ‘guiding’ introductory chapter to the section of ‘Human Rights and Penality’ (Weber et al, 2016). She is an Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology and a Board Member on several other journals (Criminology and Criminal Justice; State Crime; Justice, Power and Resistance). Her work is highly regarded for its originality and quality.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights and Incarceration
Book Subtitle: Critical Explorations
Editors: Elizabeth Stanley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95399-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95398-4Published: 22 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07028-1Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95399-1Published: 09 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 311
Topics: Human Rights and Crime , Prison and Punishment, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Criminal Justice, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Victimology