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1 online resource (419 pages) |
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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice |
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Routledge frontiers of criminal justice.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Editors' biographies; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Research on long-term imprisonment; 3 Methodology; 4 International rules concerning long-term prisoners; 5 Activities of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture; 6 Long-term imprisonment in the participating countries; 6.1 Belgium; 6.2 Croatia; 6.3 Denmark; 6.4 England and Wales; 6.5 Finland; 6.6 France; 6.7 Germany; 6.8 Lithuania; 6.9 Poland |
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6.10 Spain -- Catalonia6.11 Sweden; 7 Findings of the empirical study; 7.1 Accommodation; 7.2 Sentence planning; 7.3 Health care; 7.4 Psychiatric problems; 7.5 Work and education; 7.6 Leisure time; 7.7 Treatment programmes; 7.8 Personal contacts within the institution, security and conflict management; 7.9 Personal contacts with the outside world and preparation for release; 8 Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like in prison, ranging from the idea of the prison cell as a cosy nook with fast internet access to that of a dungeon with a hard bed and a diet of bread and water. But what is prison really like? Do prisoners have the same rights as everyone else? What are the similarities and differences between prisons in different European countries?This book answers all of these questions, whilst a |
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Print version record |
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Imprisonment -- European Union countries
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Prisoners -- Civil rights -- European Union countries
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Prisoners -- European Union countries -- Social conditions
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Human rights -- European Union countries
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Human rights
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Imprisonment
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Prisoners -- Civil rights
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Prisoners -- Social conditions
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European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dudeck, Manuela
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Dünkel, Frieder
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| ISBN |
9781317684442 |
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1317684443 |
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