Human Rights and Incarceration: Critical Explorations

Book Overview

Explores human rights, social justice and incarceration using comparative case material from UK, Australia, NZ and Canada

Examines groups that are disproportionately affected through incarceration: indigenous populations, children, women, those with disabilities and refugees/'non-citizens'

Analyses how human rights are secured for those incarcerated e.g. community activism, media engagement and UN collaboration

Presents an opportunity for a more hopeful vision of human rights and incarceration

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319953982
• ISBN13: 9783319953984
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"