Prisoners' Rights

<p><em>Prisoners’ Rights: Principles and Practice</em> considers prisoners’ rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment and projected future expansion of the prison population this work is timely.</p><p>The discussion in this book is not confined to a formal legal analysis although it does include discussion of the developing jurisprudence on prisoners’ rights. It offers a socio-legal rather than a purely black letter approach and focuses on the experience of imprisonment. It draws on perspectives from a range of disciplines to illuminate how prisoners’ rights operate in practice. The text also contributes to debates on imprisonment and citizenship the treatment of women prisoners and social exclusion.</p><p>This book will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of penology and criminal justice as well as professionals working within the penal system.</p>