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Embedding Human Rights in Prison
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Anastasia Karamalidou
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-06 - Publisher: Springer

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This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands. Over the years changes in Dutch penal policy have smoothed to some
Human Rights and Incarceration
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Elizabeth Stanley
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-09 - Publisher: Springer

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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
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
Language: en
Pages: 800
Authors: Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-31 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.
Bringing Human Rights Home
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Cynthia Soohoo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in
Beyond Walls and Cages
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: Jenna M. Loyd
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nea