@article{1453904,
      recid = {1453904},
      author = {Daems, Tom,},
      title = {Body searches and imprisonment /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book explores and addresses body search practices in  prison environments from different angles (criminology,  sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such  practices in different national contexts within Europe.  Body searches are widely used in prison systems across the  globe: they are perceived as indispensable to prevent  forbidden substances, weapons or communication devices from  entering the prison. However, these are also invasive and  potentially degrading control techniques. It should not  come as a surprise, then, that body searches are deeply  contested security measures and that they have been widely  debated and regulated. What makes theses control measures  problematic in a prison context? How do these practices  come to be regulated in an international and European  context? How are rules translated into national law? To  what extent are laws and rules respected, bent,  circumvented and denied? And what does the future hold for  body searches? 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). .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1453904},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20451-7},
}