Europe in Prisons

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: From Prisons in Europe to Europe in Prisons

   • Tom Daems, Luc Robert

   Pages 1-10

3. Monitoring Prisons: The Increasingly Complex Relationship Between International and Domestic Frameworks

   • Christine Bicknell, Malcolm Evans

   Pages 11-35

4. Human Rights in European Prisons: Can the Implementation of Strasbourg Court Judgments Influence Penitentiary Reform Domestically?

   • Dia Anagnostou, Dimitris Skleparis

   Pages 37-77

5. Learning from Carceral Tours: Reflections After a Howard Tour Across Europe

   • Tom Vander Beken

   Pages 79-101

6. Tracing the Impact of the Council of Europe Anti-torture Committee on Albania’s Prison System

   • Brunilda Pali, Xhilda Vocaj

   Pages 103-133

7. Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee and Prisons in Austria

   • Ursula Kriebaum

   Pages 135-171

8. Europe in Belgian Prisons: Assessing the Impact of the Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee and the European Court of Human Rights

   • Tom Daems, Luc Robert

   Pages 173-204

9. Europe in Irish Prisons: Not Quite the ‘Good European’

   • Claire Hamilton

   Pages 205-229

10. Best in Class? Norwegian Incarceration and the Pragmatic Production of Legitimacy

    • Thomas Horn, Thomas Ugelvik

    Pages 231-253

11. European Prison Policy and Spanish Prison Practices: Understanding Confluences and Gaps

    • José Cid, Ariadna Andreu

    Pages 255-289

12. Monitoring the Implementation Gap: A Comparative Perspective

    • Jonas Visschers, Tom Daems

    Pages 291-312

13. The Future of Europe in Prisons

    • Tom Daems, Luc Robert

    Pages 313-320

14. Back Matter

    Pages 321-328

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This volume explores the role that European institutions have come to play in regulating national prisons systems.  The authors introduce and contribute to advancing a new research agenda in international penology (‘Europe in prisons’) which complements the conventional comparative approach (‘prisons in Europe’).  The chapters examine the impact – if any – that institutions such as the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the European Court of Human Rights have had on prison policy throughout Europe.  With contributions from a wide range of countries such as Albania, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Norway and Spain, this edited collection offers a wide-ranging and authoritative guide to the effects of European institutions on prison policy. 

• European Union
• Penology
• Criminal Justice
• UK
• United Nations
• Albania
• Austria
• Belgium
• Ireland
• Poland
• Spain
• prison conditions
• penal rationalities
• quantitative criminology
• juries and criminal trials

• Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Tom Daems

• National Institute of Forensic Sciences and Criminology (NICC), Brussels, Belgium

  Luc Robert

Tom Daems is Associate Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium.  


Luc Robert is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology (NICC), Brussels, Belgium.

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