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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Tables; 1 Human Rights and Incarceration; Introduction; Human Rights Frameworks; Incarceration and the Erosion of Rights; Legitimacy; Criminalisation; Managerialism; Law; Human Rights and Social Justice; This Collection; References; 2 Children Deprived of Their Liberty on 'Welfare' Grounds: A Critical Perspective; Introduction; Promoting and Protecting Children's Rights; The UK Context; Listening to Children's Voices; Secure Accommodation in Britain; The Experiences of Children in Northern Ireland
The Culture of Risk ManagementDetermining the 'Best Interests' of the Child; Limited 'Participation'; Lack of Civil Rights and Freedoms; Reaffirming Commitment to Children's Rights; Rights-Based Interventions: A Critique; Ways Forward; References; 3 Rights of Persons with Disability Not to Be Criminalised; Introduction; Disregard for Aspects of Human Rights in the Neo-Liberal State; The Nature of Criminalisation in Relation to Disability; Incarceration and Further Criminalization and Punishment; Relevant Legal Rights; Towards a Disability Social Justice Rights Framework; Conclusion
The Normativity and Contradictions of Human RightsRights, Resistance and Free Movement; Conclusion; References; 6 Haunted by the Presence of Death: Prisons, Abolitionism and the Right to Life; Introduction; Death and the Violation of Rights; Civil Death; Social Death; Corporeal Death; Contesting the Spirit of Death; Speaking and Naming; Making Something Happen; A Matter of Life and Death; References; 7 Human Rights for 'Hard Cases': Alternatives to Imprisonment for Serious Offending by Children and Youth; Introduction; The 'Hard Cases'; The Harmful Effects of Imprisonment
Hurdles to Abolition of the Use of ImprisonmentThe Human Rights Framework for Serious Offending by Children and Young People; Punitive Responses to Top-End Violent Offending; Societal Expectations; Principled Alternatives to the Sentence of Imprisonment-A Case Study; A Single Jurisdiction for Youth; A Requirement that Young Offenders Serve Sentences of Imprisonment in Youth Justice Custody Rather Than an Adult Prison; Removal of Mandatory or Presumptive Sentencing Provisions for Youth; A Legislative Cap; A Reverse Onus for Risk; Principled and Appropriate Parole Process
The Culture of Risk ManagementDetermining the 'Best Interests' of the Child; Limited 'Participation'; Lack of Civil Rights and Freedoms; Reaffirming Commitment to Children's Rights; Rights-Based Interventions: A Critique; Ways Forward; References; 3 Rights of Persons with Disability Not to Be Criminalised; Introduction; Disregard for Aspects of Human Rights in the Neo-Liberal State; The Nature of Criminalisation in Relation to Disability; Incarceration and Further Criminalization and Punishment; Relevant Legal Rights; Towards a Disability Social Justice Rights Framework; Conclusion
The Normativity and Contradictions of Human RightsRights, Resistance and Free Movement; Conclusion; References; 6 Haunted by the Presence of Death: Prisons, Abolitionism and the Right to Life; Introduction; Death and the Violation of Rights; Civil Death; Social Death; Corporeal Death; Contesting the Spirit of Death; Speaking and Naming; Making Something Happen; A Matter of Life and Death; References; 7 Human Rights for 'Hard Cases': Alternatives to Imprisonment for Serious Offending by Children and Youth; Introduction; The 'Hard Cases'; The Harmful Effects of Imprisonment
Hurdles to Abolition of the Use of ImprisonmentThe Human Rights Framework for Serious Offending by Children and Young People; Punitive Responses to Top-End Violent Offending; Societal Expectations; Principled Alternatives to the Sentence of Imprisonment-A Case Study; A Single Jurisdiction for Youth; A Requirement that Young Offenders Serve Sentences of Imprisonment in Youth Justice Custody Rather Than an Adult Prison; Removal of Mandatory or Presumptive Sentencing Provisions for Youth; A Legislative Cap; A Reverse Onus for Risk; Principled and Appropriate Parole Process