Human Rights in Prisons [electronic resource] : Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines /
Jefferson, A.author.
Danish Institute against Torture (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Gaborit, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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?; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Criminology.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Ethnography.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
Sociology.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Ethnography.
Crime and Society.
Human Rights.
Sociology, general.