Body Searches and Imprisonment

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Body Searches and Imprisonment

By Tom Daems
Palgrave Macmillan January 2023

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ISBN-13
9783031204500
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication
January 2023
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Switzerland ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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?

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Body searches as contested control measures
Chapter 2. The imposition of power through touch: A sensory criminology approach to understanding body searches
Chapter 3. Searching, 'state of security' and the structuration of prison security
Chapter 4. Strip searches: A risky practice that needs to be monitored
Chapter 5. Strip searches through the lens of the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment in European human rights law
Chapter 6. Body searches and vulnerable groups: Women and LGBTQI+ people in prison
Chapter 7. Body searches in Belgian prisons: dignity, security and denial
Chapter 8. Body searches in French prisons: Dignity and security on a roller coaster
Chapter 9. Stripping the self away: security, control, and punishment in the practice of strip searches in Spanish prisons
Chapter 10. Gendered punishment and protest in a context of conflict: Strip searching in Northern Ireland
Chapter 11. "There's a tech for that": balancing dignity and security in carceral settings through alternative technology devices
Chapter 12. What future for body searches in prisons?
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