The evolving protection of prisoners' rights in Europe / edited by Gaëtan Cliquennois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cliquennois, Gaëtan, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Court of Human Rights.

Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc--European Union countries.

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Civil rights--European Union countries.

Prisons--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Prisons.

Prison reform--European Union countries.

Prison reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 220 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Ga͡tan Cliquennois holds dual PhD in Sociology of Law from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, and the University of Saint-Louis, Belgium. From 2010 to 2013, Ga͡tan was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the FNRS, Belgium, and worked on human rights in penal and prison matters. He was also Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and at the London School of Economics, UK. Since 2013, he has been a permanent Research Fellow for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the University of Strasbourg, France (SAGE: Societies, Actors and Governments in Europe) and since 2018 at the University of Nantes, France. Since February 2021, he is the Director of Law and Social Change and works in the field of Law and Sociology of Law. As a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute, he worked on the relationships between human rights and austerity policies. He has also worked on the creeping privatization of human rights and the European justice system. He has expertise in European human rights justice, the potential privatization of this system, litigation, penal and prison policies and management in Europe, and prison monitoring and strategic litigation by prisoners, NGOs and private foundations. In 2014, he was awarded an IDEX by the University of Strasbourg to work on 'the impact of funding and auditing mechanisms on the protection of Human Rights in Europe in times of crises'. In 2017, he was awarded a grant to work on human rights and pretrial detention for two years by the European Commission.

Contents:

The right to life : suicide and homicide prevention in prison / Jean-Manuel Larralde and Gaëtan Cliquennois

The prohibition of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment and the right to liberty and security / Sonja Snacken

The execution of penalties in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights / Simon Creighton

The rights of prisoners within the CJEU's case law / Leandro Mancano

Ireland : the weak European supervision of prison policies and its explanations / Mary Rogan and Sophie van der Valk

Strengths and weaknesses of the judicial protection in Germany / Christine Graebsch

The conduct of prison reforms : an assessment of the effectiveness of domestic remedies in Italy / Sofia Ciuffoletti and Paulo Pinto de Alburquerque

The impact of the European Court of Human Rights on the supervision of conditions of detention by the French courts / Anne Simon and Isabelle Fouchard

Belgium : structural problems in the field of prison overcrowding, healthcare, and security measures / Gaëtan Cliquennois and Olivia Nederlandt

Reform vs. resistance in the Romanian penitentiary system, prison staff perceptions, and attitudes regarding their role in reaching the legal goal of detention / Cristina Dombeanu and Valentina Pricopie

Assessment of corrective measures in the United Kingdom / Rosaria Pirosa

Systemic effects and dashed expectations : the two tales of prison litigation in Germany / Christine Morgenstern and Mary Rogan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 17, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Evolving protection of prisoners' rights in Europe

ISBN:

9780429317033

0429317034

9781000824155

1000824152

9781000824179

1000824179

Publisher Number:

40031529073

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