This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic
states of Australia New Zealand and the UK. It presents original case-study material on groups
that are disproportionately affected by incarceration including indigenous populations
children women those with disabilities and refugees or 'non-citizens'. The book considers
how and why human rights are eroded but also how they can be built and sustained through
social creative cultural legal political and personal acts. It establishes the need for
pragmatic reforms as well as the abolition of incarceration.Contributors consider what has or
might work to secure rights for incarcerated populations and they critically analyse human
rights in their legal socio-cultural economic and political contexts. In covering this ground
the book presents a re-invigorated vision of human rights in relation to incarceration. After
all human rights are not static principles they have to be developed fought over and engaged
with.
