Body searches and imprisonment. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tom Daems.
• Editors: Daems, Tom
• 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?.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (235 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 365.641; Prison administration; Searches and seizures; Prisons -- Security measures; Prisoners -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031204517
• Related ISBNs: 9783031204500
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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