Elizabeth (Hrsg.) Stanley

Human Rights and Incarceration

Critical Explorations

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-95399-1
EAN: 9783319953991
Produktnummer: 28261314
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 311 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'393 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: Bibliographie

Über den Autor

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.