Overview
- Examines one of the most controversial control measures in prisons
- Explores body searches from different disciplinary angles and national perspectives
- Offers in-depth discussions of the difficult balance between human dignity and prison security
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Body Searches and Imprisonment
Editors: Tom Daems
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20451-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20450-0Published: 11 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20453-1Published: 11 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20451-7Published: 10 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 271
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Crime Control and Security, Human Rights, Sociology of the Body, Critical Criminology, European Law