Body Searches and Imprisonment

This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national contexts within Europe. Body searches are widely used in prison systems across the globe: they are per...

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Autor principal: Daems, Tom
Format: Livre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.
Cham : Springer Nature
Col·lecció:Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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Accès Université d'Orléans
Nota: Springer e-books droit et criminologie (Licence nationale)
Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Edition sous un autre format:• Body Searches and Imprisonment, Texte imprimé, 9783031204500
• Body Searches and Imprisonment, Texte imprimé, 9783031204524
• Body searches and imprisonment, Tom Daems, editor, 2023, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 1 vol. (271-11 p.), Palgrace studies in prisons and penology, 978-3-0312-0453-1
Taula de continguts:
  • Chapter 1. Body searches as contested control measures
  • Chapter 2. The imposition of power through touch: A sensory criminology approach to understanding body searches
  • Chapter 3. Searching, 'state of security' and the structuration of prison security
  • Chapter 4. Strip searches: A risky practice that needs to be monitored
  • Chapter 5. Strip searches through the lens of the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment in European human rights law
  • Chapter 6. Body searches and vulnerable groups: Women and LGBTQI+ people in prison
  • Chapter 7. Body searches in Belgian prisons: dignity, security and denial
  • Chapter 8. Body searches in French prisons: Dignity and security on a roller coaster
  • Chapter 9. Stripping the self away: security, control, and punishment in the practice of strip searches in Spanish prisons
  • Chapter 10. Gendered punishment and protest in a context of conflict: Strip searching in Northern Ireland
  • Chapter 11. "There's a tech for that": balancing dignity and security in carceral settings through alternative technology devices
  • Chapter 12. What future for body searches in prisons?.