Human Rights Behind Bars: Tracing Vulnerability in Prison Populations Across Continents from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
About this ebook
This comprehensive volume offers a platform for reflecting on the complexity of the prison problem from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors address detention-related issues with the aim of generating new ideas that contribute to both academic discussion and critical analysis. Academic dialogue across the globe provides insights into various national and international carceral systems and how they deal with human rights behind bars. At the same time, the critical comparison helps to identify basic needs and practices that can work in multiple settings.
The contributors are respected experts and leading scholars in their fields, and each has pursued prison and human rightsresearch over the last decades. However, this is the first time that they have come together in a multidisciplinary academic project.
This book aims to stimulate diverse actors to imagine alternative ways of engaging with persons deprived of their liberty, in academia and in practice.
About the author
Yves Haeck is a professor of international human rights and constitutional law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, and a guest professor at the Universities of Geneva and Pretoria. Besides, he is the Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at Ghent University. Prior to this, he was an assistant professor at Utrecht University and a guest professor at the University of Malta. Yves is co-founder of the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. His research focuses on both substantial and procedural issues before regional human rights adjudicators, especially the European and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
