Prisoners' Vote (eBook, ePUB)

A Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: Herzog-Evans, Martine; Thomas, Jérôme

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as well as the optimal modalities for such a vote.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040019702
• Artikelnr.: 70087728

Autorenporträt

Martine Herzon-Evans teaches penology and criminology at the Université de Reims-Champagne Ardennes, France. Her research interests range from legitimacy of justice, sentences, problem-solving courts, offender treatment, prisons and reentry and domestic violence. Jérôme Thomas is a lecturer in information and communication sciences at the university of Reims Champagne-Ardenne / IUT de Troyes (France). His work focuses on the forms of expression, speech, and communication that occur in institutions of deprivation of liberty and control, such as psychiatric hospitals and prisons.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Martine Herzog-Evans and Jérôme Thomas

PART 1 - Can Prisoners Vote?

Waking Up to Re-enfranchisement

Chapter 1 - Prisoner Voting Rights and International law

Steve Foster

Chapter 2 - Incarcerated Individuals' Right to Vote in the Czech Republic

Petra Zhrivalova and Tereza Trebjalova

Chapter 3 - Criminal Disenfranchisement in Old Democracies: Comparing France, the UK, and, the United States

Alice Dejean de la Batie

PART 2 - Should Prisoners Vote?

Chapter 4 - To Feel Part of a Wider Community: The Case for Prisoner Voting

Cormac Behan

Chapter 5 - US disenfranchisement and Re-enfranchisement explained

Christopher Uggen, Robert Stewart and Emma Lookner

Chapter 6 - Prisoners' Vote in France: Political Capital, Social Bond, and Desistance

Martine Herzog-Evans and Jérôme Thomas

Chapter 7 - Waking Up to Re-enfranchisement

Fergus McNeill