Imprisonment Today and Tomorrow: International Perspectives on Prisoners' Rights and Prison ConditionsDirk Van Zyl Smit, Frieder Du ̈nkel Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 6 juin 2001 - 879 pages Are more people being imprisoned throughout the world? Why is imprisonment still being used on a wide scale when an increasing number of alternatives are available? What are the major developments in prison law in the last decade? What problems arise in prison systems when states become constitutional democracies for the first time? Should prisons be privatized? How can prison conditions and prisoners' rights be improved? What special measures should there be for women, juveniles, violent offenders or drug addicts in prison? What programmes work effectively under which conditions? The second edition of "Imprisonment Today and Tomorrow" presents much fresh information in its attempts to provide answers to these and other crucial questions. It provides authoritative accounts by leading national experts on the place of imprisonment in 26 penal systems of major countries throughout the world. In addition, through the chapters on the work of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Punishment, non-governmental organizations and the United Nations, it sheds new light on international initiatives to promote prison standards. These are complemented by a comparative survey of world prison populations and a final chapter in which the editors evaluate developments described in this volume and elsewhere in order to arrive at conclusions about international trends and to make well-grounded proposals for prison reform. |
Table des matières
Belgium | 32 |
Botswana | 82 |
Brazil | 104 |
Canada | 124 |
The Czech Republic | 151 |
Denmark | 175 |
England and Wales | 211 |
Estonia | 238 |
Poland | 508 |
Russia | 551 |
South Africa | 589 |
Spain | 609 |
Sweden | 634 |
Switzerland | 653 |
United States of America | 676 |
Venezuela | 695 |
France | 253 |
Germany | 288 |
Hungary | 351 |
India | 373 |
The Death of Prison Reform in Italy | 400 |
Japan | 425 |
Lithuania | 448 |
Mozambique | 467 |
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture | 717 |
NonGovernmental Organizations | 740 |
The United Nations and the Promotion of Prison Standards | 756 |
An Attempt at a Complete List | 775 |
Conclusion | 796 |
List of Authors | 860 |
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31 December addition applied Botswana cells cent centres Committee complaints conditional release convicted Council of Europe countries court crime Criminal Code criminal justice criminal law custody Czech Republic decision Department of Prisons detainees disciplinary drug addicts Dünkel early release Estonia example Execution of Penalties federal gaols Government Human Rights imposed incarceration increase inmates International judicial juvenile prisoners legislation Lithuania measures Ministry of Justice National prison administration non-governmental organizations number of prisoners offenders open prisons organizations overcrowding parole penal institutions penitentiary period persons political pre-trial detention Prevention principle Prison Act prison authorities prison governor prison labour prison population prison sentences Prison Service prison staff prison system prisoner's problems procedure programmes punishment reform regulations rehabilitation remand prisons resocialization rule sanctions Saxony-Anhalt sentenced prisoners serving social solitary confinement supervision treatment United Nations visits West Germany women Zyl Smit