Editors:
- Written by leading authorities on prison studies, hailing from different disciplines
- Presents findings that are universal in scope
- Discusses a selection of topics that are of vital importance in the field
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 103)
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (15 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Prison-Related Studies of Judges, UN Experts, Commissioners and Other Senior Staff of Human Rights Bodies
-
Front Matter
-
-
Prison-Related Studies of Human Rights Scholars
-
Front Matter
-
-
Prison-Related Studies of Scholars in Legal Medicine and Health
-
Front Matter
-
-
Prison-Related Studies of Criminologists and Political Scientists
-
Front Matter
-
About this book
This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.
This comprehensive volume offers a platform for reflecting on the complexity of the prison problem from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors address detention-related issues with the aim of generating new ideas that contribute to both academic discussion and critical analysis. Academic dialogue across the globe provides insights into various national and international carceral systems and how they deal with human rights behind bars. At the same time, the critical comparison helps to identify basic needs and practices that can work in multiple settings.
The contributors are respected experts and leading scholars in their fields, and each has pursued prison and human rightsresearch over the last decades. However, this is the first time that they have come together in a multidisciplinary academic project.
This book aims to stimulate diverse actors to imagine alternative ways of engaging with persons deprived of their liberty, in academia and in practice.
Editors and Affiliations
-
Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Clara Burbano Herrera, Yves Haeck
About the editors
Yves Haeck is a professor of international human rights and constitutional law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, and a guest professor at the Universities of Geneva and Pretoria. Besides, he is the Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at Ghent University. Prior to this, he was an assistant professor at Utrecht University and a guest professor at the University of Malta. Yves is co-founder of the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. His research focuses on both substantial and procedural issues before regional human rights adjudicators, especially the European and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights Behind Bars
Book Subtitle: Tracing Vulnerability in Prison Populations Across Continents from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Editors: Clara Burbano Herrera, Yves Haeck
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11484-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11483-0Published: 15 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11486-1Published: 15 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11484-7Published: 14 November 2022
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 355
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Rights, Medical Law, Prison and Punishment