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Title Human rights and incarceration : critical explorations / edited by Elizabeth Stanley
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave studies in prisons and penology
Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.
Contents Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Tables; 1 Human Rights and Incarceration; Introduction; Human Rights Frameworks; Incarceration and the Erosion of Rights; Legitimacy; Criminalisation; Managerialism; Law; Human Rights and Social Justice; This Collection; References; 2 Children Deprived of Their Liberty on 'Welfare' Grounds: A Critical Perspective; Introduction; Promoting and Protecting Children's Rights; The UK Context; Listening to Children's Voices; Secure Accommodation in Britain; The Experiences of Children in Northern Ireland
The Culture of Risk ManagementDetermining the 'Best Interests' of the Child; Limited 'Participation'; Lack of Civil Rights and Freedoms; Reaffirming Commitment to Children's Rights; Rights-Based Interventions: A Critique; Ways Forward; References; 3 Rights of Persons with Disability Not to Be Criminalised; Introduction; Disregard for Aspects of Human Rights in the Neo-Liberal State; The Nature of Criminalisation in Relation to Disability; Incarceration and Further Criminalization and Punishment; Relevant Legal Rights; Towards a Disability Social Justice Rights Framework; Conclusion
The Normativity and Contradictions of Human RightsRights, Resistance and Free Movement; Conclusion; References; 6 Haunted by the Presence of Death: Prisons, Abolitionism and the Right to Life; Introduction; Death and the Violation of Rights; Civil Death; Social Death; Corporeal Death; Contesting the Spirit of Death; Speaking and Naming; Making Something Happen; A Matter of Life and Death; References; 7 Human Rights for 'Hard Cases': Alternatives to Imprisonment for Serious Offending by Children and Youth; Introduction; The 'Hard Cases'; The Harmful Effects of Imprisonment
Hurdles to Abolition of the Use of ImprisonmentThe Human Rights Framework for Serious Offending by Children and Young People; Punitive Responses to Top-End Violent Offending; Societal Expectations; Principled Alternatives to the Sentence of Imprisonment-A Case Study; A Single Jurisdiction for Youth; A Requirement that Young Offenders Serve Sentences of Imprisonment in Youth Justice Custody Rather Than an Adult Prison; Removal of Mandatory or Presumptive Sentencing Provisions for Youth; A Legislative Cap; A Reverse Onus for Risk; Principled and Appropriate Parole Process
Summary 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.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 15, 2018)
Subject Imprisonment.
Human rights.
Prisons.
Prisoners -- Civil rights.
Children -- Effect of imprisonment on
Immigrants -- Effect of imprisonment on
Human Rights
Prisons
imprisonment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Human rights
Imprisonment
Prisoners -- Civil rights
Prisons
Form Electronic book
Author Stanley, Elizabeth, 1972- editor.
ISBN 9783319953991
3319953990