Just Prisons

Requests and Complaints in Prisons in Europe
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-73182-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

This edited book explores how requests and complaints by prisoners are being dealt with by prison governors/administrations or independent bodies (such as complaint commissions), in different parts of Europe. It asks who complains and why? How are complaints from prisoners being dealt with, from a legal and empirical point of view? How do procedures work and can they be considered effective? Should administrative procedures be exhausted before appealing to a judge? It explores whether such systems comply with international regulation, such as the European Prison Rules, the UN Mandela Rules or the case-law of the ECtHR. It speaks to academics, NGOs and lawyers with an interest in prison law, human rights bodies and prison monitoring bodies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daems, Tom

Larrauri, Elena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Taking complaints and requests in prisons seriously ( ).- Chapter 2. The Dutch Complaint Procedure for Prisoners Under Pressure ( ).- Chapter 3. Who complains in prison, who doesn’t and why? A view from Germany ( ).- Chapter 4. Irish Prisoner Complaints: the challenges of complaining from within ( ).- Chapter 5. A new complaint system for prisoners in Belgium ( ).- Chapter 6. The system of prisoners’ complaints in Romania: law vs. Practice ( ).- Chapter 7. ‘They need to like you to get an answer’: Prisoners’ Perspectives on Requests and Complaints in Spanish Prisons ( ).

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Daems is Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Elena Larrauri is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.