Impact of European Human Rights Bodies on Penal Policies

Gaëtan Cliquennois is Permanent Researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Rennes and associate researcher at the University of Strasbourg, France.

• CHAPTER 1. Introduction.- PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE PROTECTION OF DETAINEES’ RIGHTS.- CHAPTER 2. The role of the European Court of Human Rights in the protection of detainees’ rights and in the shaping of penal, detention policies and an inverted panopticon through pilot judgments.- CHAPTER 3. European orientation and softening of criminal and penal policies under the right to dignity and the prohibition of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment.- CHAPTER 4. Changes to suicide and homicide prevention policies in detention: between the reinforcement of the panopticon and the inverted panopticon.- CHAPTER 5. The European impacts on penal policies under the right to liberty and security: the development of judicial review and a risk-based approach.- CHAPTER 6. The development of coercive rights as an opposite trend to the rise of detainees’ rights.- PART 2: HOW THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS BOTH ENSURE AND LIMIT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN DETENTION THROUGH COOPERATION AND ALLIANCE.- CHAPTER 7. The reinforced European effects on penal and prison policies: the back-up of the EU and the CJEU.- CHAPTER 8. The relay of the ECtHR by the CPT policy concerning prison overcrowding, suicide prevention, life prisoners and mentally ill offenders.- CHAPTER 9. The difference NGOs make on access to justice and litigation.- CHAPTER 10. The relay of the ECtHR jurisprudence by national prison administrations and its impacts on national penal and prison policies.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.