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Hope Behind Bars
A piercing portrait of the injustices of the Indian prison system. For decades, the narratives around prisoners in India have perpetuated arbitrary notions of the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ citizen. Stories about Indian prisons rarely make it to public notice – from deplorable living conditions, lack of medical care and legal support to intense mistreatment, violence and all manner of horrific abuse. Despite the mounting evidence, any attempts to study the systemic frailties and chilling injustices that abound within a prison complex have been few and far between. In Hope Behind Bars, editors Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka draw upon extensive research, identifying prisoners and ex-pri...
Life Imprisonment in Asia
Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences. Yet, in Asia the phenomenon has never been studied systematically. Life Imprisonment in Asia fills this major gap. It brings together thirteen new essays on life imprisonment in key jurisdictions in the region. Each chapter consolidates what is known about the law and practice of life imprisonment in the jurisdiction and then explores aspects of the imposition or implementation of life sentences that the authors regard as particularly problematic. In some instances, the main issue is the imposition of life sentences by the courts and their relationship to the death penalty...
The Impact of Covid-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy
The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy presents the results of a worldwide exchange of information on the impact of COVID-19 in prisons. It also focuses on the human rights questions that have been raised during the pandemic, relating to the treatment of prisoners in institutions for both juveniles and adults worldwide. The first part brings together the findings and conclusions of leading prison academics and practitioners, presenting national reports with information on the prison system, prison population rates, how COVID-19 was and is managed in prisons, and its impact on living conditions inside prisons and on reintegration programmes. Forty-four countries are cove...
Life Imprisonment and Human Rights
In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human rights.
To Kill a Democracy
India's democracy is failing. And this failure, argue Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, is not a recent development, and not just linked to Modi's rise to power. With a unique narrative combining moving life stories and scholarly insight, they offer a radical re-appraisal of Indian politics and society. They discuss India's passage to despotism not just in terms of shrinking civil rights and captured and broken governing institutions, but also from the perspective of welfare provisions and economic and social well-being. Throughout, Roy Chowdhury and Keane show how these social and political dysfunctions have intersected to reduce India to a phantom democracy. Book jacket.
Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems, with Commentaries
The present Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems with Commentaries was developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
LOKSHAHICHYA HATTYESATHI
COMBINING POIGNANT LIFE STORIES WITH SHARP SCHOLARLY INSIGHT, TO KILL A DEMOCRACY REJECTS THE BELIEF THAT INDIA WAS ONCE A BEACON OF DEMOCRACY BUT IS NOW BEING RUINED BY THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF MODI-STYLE POPULISM. IT DETAILS THE MUCH DEEPER HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE PRESENT-DAY ASSAULTS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES AND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS. DEMOCRACY, THE AUTHORS ALSO ARGUE, IS MUCH MORE THAN ELECTIONS AND THE SEPARATION OF POWERS. IT IS A WHOLE WAY OF LIFE LIVED IN DIGNITY, AND THAT IS WHY THEY PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE DECAYING SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY.IN COMPELLING FASHION, THE BOOK DESCRIBES DAILY STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL AND EXPLAINS HOW LIVED SOCIAL INJUSTICES AND UNFREEDOMS R...
Hope Behind Bars
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Life Imprisonment
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment. Life Imprisonment explores this trend through systemati...
