Europe in Prisons

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.

• 1. From Prisons in Europe to Europe in Prisons; Tom Daems & Luc Robert.- 2. Monitoring Prisons: the Increasingly Complex Relationship between International and Domestic Frameworks; Christine Bicknell and Malcolm Evans.-  3. Human rights in European Prisons: Can the Implementation of Strasbourg Court Judgments Influence Penitentiary Reform Domestically?; Dia Anagnostou and Dimitris Skleparis.-  4. Learning from Carceral Tours. Reflections after a Howard Tour across Europe; Tom Vander Beken.-  5. Tracing the Impact of the Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee on Albania’s Prison System; Brunilda Pali and Xhilda Vocaj.- 6. The Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee and Prisons in Austria; Ursula Kriebaum.- 7. Europe in Belgian Prisons: Assessing the Impact of the Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee and the European Court of Human Rights; Tom Daems and Luc Robert.-  8. Europe in Irish Prisons: Not Quite the ‘Good European’; Claire Hamilton.- 9. Best in Class? Norwegian Incarceration and the Pragmatic Production of Legitimacy; Thomas Horn and Thomas Ugelvik.-  10. European Prison Policy and Spanish Prison Practices: Understanding Confluences and Gaps; José Cid and Ariadna Andreu.- 11. Monitoring the Implementation Gap: a Comparative Perspective; Jonas Visschers and Tom Daems.-  12. The Future of Europe in Prisons; Tom Daems & Luc Robert.