Body Searches and Imprisonment

<div><div>This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national contexts within Europe.&nbsp;Body searches are widely used in prison systems across the globe: they are perceived as indispensable to prevent&nbsp;forbidden substances, weapons or communication devices from entering the prison. However, these are also invasive and potentially degrading control techniques. It should not come as a surprise, then, that body searches are deeply contested security measures and that they have been widely debated and regulated. What makes theses control measures problematic in a prison context? How do these practices come to be regulated in an international and European context?&nbsp;How are rules translated into national law?&nbsp;To what extent are laws and rules respected, bent, circumvented and denied? And what does the future hold for body searches?&nbsp;&nbsp;<br></div></div>