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Body Searches and Imprisonment
Title
Body Searches and Imprisonment [electronic resource] / edited by Tom Daems.
ISBN
9783031204517
Edition
1st ed. 2023.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XI, 271 p.) 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.
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Summary
This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national contexts within Europe. Body searches are widely used in prison systems across the globe: they are perceived as indispensable to prevent forbidden substances, weapons or communication devices from entering the prison. However, these are also invasive and potentially degrading control techniques. It should not come as a surprise, then, that body searches are deeply contested security measures and that they have been widely debated and regulated. What makes theses control measures problematic in a prison context? How do these practices come to be regulated in an international and European context? How are rules translated into national law? To what extent are laws and rules respected, bent, circumvented and denied? And what does the future hold for body searches? Tom Daems is Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium. At LINC, he coordinates the research line on 'Punishment and Control'. Daems has published widely on punishment and prisons, in particular from a European perspective. With Palgrave, he previously published Electronic Monitoring: Tagging Offenders in a Culture of Surveillance (2020) and Europe in Prisons: Assessing the Impact of European Institutions on National Prison Systems (2017, co-edited with Luc Robert). .
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 02, 2023
Series
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology,
Contents
Chapter 1. Body searches as contested control measures
Chapter 2. The imposition of power through touch: A sensory criminology approach to understanding body searches
Chapter 3. Searching, 'state of security' and the structuration of prison security
Chapter 4. Strip searches: A risky practice that needs to be monitored
Chapter 5. Strip searches through the lens of the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment in European human rights law
Chapter 6. Body searches and vulnerable groups: Women and LGBTQI+ people in prison
Chapter 7. Body searches in Belgian prisons: dignity, security and denial
Chapter 8. Body searches in French prisons: Dignity and security on a roller coaster
Chapter 9. Stripping the self away: security, control, and punishment in the practice of strip searches in Spanish prisons
Chapter 10. Gendered punishment and protest in a context of conflict: Strip searching in Northern Ireland
Chapter 11. "There's a tech for that": balancing dignity and security in carceral settings through alternative technology devices
Chapter 12. What future for body searches in prisons?.
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