The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-32153-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison policies by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), clarifying the European expectations of national authorities, and describing the various models existing in Europe, with a view to analysing their mechanisms and highlighting those that seem the most suitable.

A new frame of penal and prison policies in Europe has been progressively established by the ECHR and the Council of Europe (CoE) to protect the rights of detainees in Europe. European countries have reacted very diversely to these policies. This book has several key benefits for readers:

• A global and detailed overview of the ECHR jurisprudence on penal and prison policies through an analysis of its development over time.

• An analysis of the interactions between the Strasbourg Court and the CoE bodies (Committee of Ministers, Committee for the Prevention of Torture …) and their reinforced framing of domestic penal and prison policies.

• A detailed examination of the impacts of the European case law on penal and prison policies within ten nation states in Europe (including Romania which is currently very underresearched).

• A robust engagement with the diverse national reactions to this European case law as a policy strategy.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Law, Criminal Justice, Criminology and Sociology. It will also appeal to civil servants (judges, lawyers, etc.), professionals and policymakers working for the CoE, the European Union, and the United Nations; Ministries of Justice; prison departments; and human rights institutions, as well as activists working for INGOs and NGOs.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cliquennois, Gaëtan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Schul-, Hochschul- und Prüfungsrecht, Wissenschaftsrecht, Forschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART 1 EUROPEAN CASE LAW ON PRISONS: A SPLIT JURISPRUDENCE

Chapter 1. The right to life: suicide and homicide prevention in prison

Chapter 2. The prohibition of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment and the right to liberty and security

Chapter 3. The execution of penalties in the jurisprudence of the European Court of human rights

Chapter 4. The Rights of Prisoners within the CJEU’s case law.

PART 2. EFFECTIVENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRISON AND EUROPEAN liRESPONSES TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN PRISON

Chapter 5. Ireland: the weak European supervision of prison policies and its explanations

Chapter 6. Strengths and weaknesses of the judicial protection in Germany.

Chapter 7. The conduct of prison reforms. An assessment of the effectiveness of domestic remedies in Italy

Chapter 8. The impact of the European Court of Human Rights on the supervision of conditions of detention by the French courts

Chapter 9. Belgium: structural problems in the field of prison overcrowding, healthcare and security measures

PART 3. THE IMPACTS OF THE EUROPEAN LAW ON PRISON REFORMS

Chapter 10. Reform vs. Resistance in the Romanian Penitentiary System. Prison Staff Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding their Role in Reaching the Legal Goal of Detention

Chapter 11. Assessment of corrective measures in the United Kingdom

Chapter 12. Systemic effects and dashed expectations: The two tales of Prison Litigation in Germany

Über Autor(innen)

Gaëtan 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, Gaëtan 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.