Human Rights in Prisons Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone

Informationen zum Autor Andrew M. Jefferson is a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture.   Liv S. Gaborit is a Research Assistant at DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture. Klappentext Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons. It explores the previously under-researched perspectives of prison staff and prisoners on their lives and relationships. Zusammenfassung Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone! Kosovo and the Philippines! Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons. It explores the previously under-researched perspectives of prison staff and prisoners on their lives and relationships. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introducing Human Rights In Prisons 2. Encountering Ourselves – A Critically Reflexive Practice Research Project 3. First Encounters – Accessing Prisons 4. Close Encounters With Prison Staff 5. Close Encounters With Prisoners 6. Close Encounters Between Prisoners And Prison Staff 7. Critical Encounters 8. What Encounters Count? What Matters?

Product details

• Authors: Andrew M. Gaborit Jefferson, Andrew M. Jefferson, Liv S. Gaborit, A. Jefferson, L. Gaborit, Jefferson, L Gaborit, A Jefferson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 10.04.2015
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology
• EAN: 9781137433763
• ISBN: 978-1-137-43376-3
• Pages: 228
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology; Palgrave Studies in Prisons an; Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology; Palgrave Studies in Prisons an
• Subjects: Soziologie, Verstehen, B, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Sociology, Human Rights, Criminology, Social & cultural anthropology, Politics & government, Ethnography, Sociology, general, Social Justice, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Crime—Sociological aspects, Crime and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general