Human Rights and Incarceration: Critical Explorations

Explores human rights, social justice and incarceration using comparative case material from UK, Australia, NZ and Canada

Examines groups that are disproportionately affected through incarceration: indigenous populations, children, women, those with disabilities and refugees/'non-citizens'

Analyses how human rights are secured for those incarcerated e.g. community activism, media engagement and UN collaboration

Presents an opportunity for a more hopeful vision of human rights and incarceration