Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cliquennois, Gaëtan
• Snacken, Sonja
• van Zyl Smit, Dirk

Titel

Introduction: Human rights, prisons and penal policies

Ist Teil von

• European journal of criminology, 2021-01, Vol.18 (1), p.3-10

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The process of institutional and judicial control over many sectors of society is often described as an influential and growing socio-legal trend, contributing to the development and the reform of modern societies. This seems to be the case particularly for prisons and other penal institutions, as international bodies and the courts have tried to influence prison policies since the 1960s at least. The judicial and inspecting bodies of the United Nations and the European Union (EU), which share the general aims and objectives of what is now commonly referred to as 'global justice', have gained increasing prominence in the fields of penal and prison policy and practice in recent years. All these bodies work in their diverse ways to ensure that human rights legislation is observed inside the borders of individual nation states.