This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk abou…
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors examine the notion of privacy and policing, using both direct (e.g. 'stop and search' methods) and technological intervent…
Chapter 1. The Hidden Corner of the Prison -- Chapter 2. An Adjudicative Framework: Morality and the Punishments Clause -- Chapter 3. The Eighth Amendment’s Evolution -- Chapter 4. National Consensus by State Counting -- Chapter 5. Proportionate Penology -- Chapter 6. Transnational Law -- Chapter 7. Professional Consensus.This book examines American solitary confinement – in which around 10…
This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime. Looking at the nature of news sources regularly used by journalists, Lugo-Ocando analyses how these numbers are used to report crime. As the author argues, far from being straightforward, the relationship between num…
Introduction: The International Criminal Court – Old Wine in a New Bottle? -- The Historical Concepts of Colonialism and Neo-colonialism -- Introduction Part I -- European Colonialism and Neo-colonialism -- Legal Colonialism by European States -- Imposition of Laws and Western Values in the Field of International Criminal Law -- Introduction Part II -- The Universalisation of Western Values s…
This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless, the international discourse on child soldiers often tends to ignore the latter dimension of children’s involvement in armed conflict and inste…
Section 1. Desistance Pathways for Specific Offender-Groups -- Chapter 1. Narratives of Punishment and Frustrated Desistance in the Lives of Repeatedly Criminalised Women; Serena Wright -- Chapter 2. ‘I Want to Be a Dad to Him, I Don’t Just Want to be Someone He Comes and Sees in Prison’; Emily Turner -- Chapter 3. The Desistance Process of Offenders Who Misuse Drugs; Charlotte Colman and…
1. Introduction: Co-production and Carceral Spatiality; Dominique Moran and Anna Schliehe -- PART I: Mapping Beyond Carceral Identities -- 2. Entangled Identities Inside and Outside; Lorraine van Blerk -- 3. An Extended Social Relational Approach to Learning Disability Incarcerated; Caitlin Gormley -- 4. Towards a Feminist Carceral Geography? Of female Offenders and Prison Spaces; Anna Schliehe…
Introduction: Victim Participation in International Criminal Justice -- The Application Process: Procedure and Players -- Requirements for Victim Participation -- The Role of Intermediaries and Third Parties in Victim Participation -- Legal Representation of Participating Victims -- The Protection of Victims Participating in International Criminal Justice -- Victims’ Rights and Obligations as…
Introduction -- The socio-legal framework -- The international law-making process -- The German law-making process: Tracing legislative intents -- The doctrinal legal debate on Article 261 of the German Criminal Code -- Data on the implementation of the anti-money laundering regime -- Opinions on the anti-money laundering regime. The implementation of the law from the perspective of legal actor…