Human Rights and Incarceration
Critical Explorations
Herausgegeben von:Elizabeth Stanley
| <p>Explores human rights, social justice and incarceration using comparative case material from UK, Australia, NZ and Canada</p> <p>Examines groups that are disproportionately affected through incarceration: indigenous populations, children, women, those with disabilities and refugees/‘non-citizens’</p><p>Analyses how human rights are secured for those incarcerated e.g. community activism, media engagement and UN collaboration<br></p><p>Presents an opportunity for a more hopeful vision of human rights and incarceration<br></p> |
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<p></p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><br><p></p>