Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention

Power, Punishment and Control

Carla Ferstman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

310 Seiten

2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529222494 (ISBN)

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Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book examines how governments misuse detention to abuse power, suppress dissent and maintain social hierarchies. Proposing solutions for future policy, this is a call for greater respect for the rule of law and human rights.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

This book examines what happens when states and other authorities use detention to abuse their power, deter dissent and maintain social hierarchies.

Written by an author with decades of practical experience in the human rights field, the book examines a variety of scenarios where individuals are unlawfully detained in violation of their most basic rights to personal liberty and exposes the many fallacies associated with arbitrary detention.

Proposing solutions for future policy to scrutinise processes, this is a call for greater respect for the rule of law and human rights.

Carla Ferstman is Professor of Law at the University of Essex.

1. Introduction

Part A: Theorising and Conceptualising “Arbitrariness”

2. Notions of the “Arbitrary”

3. “Arbitrariness” as an Indication of Harm

Part B: The Law and Practise of Arbitrary Detention in Context

4. Enforcing Hostility and Social Control

5. Deterring Dissent

6. The Securitisation of Detention: Exceptional Regimes, Security Frameworks and Counter-Terrorism Measures

7. Detention of Dual and Foreign Nationals for Leverage

8. Detention and Pandemic Exceptionality

9. Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	28.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
ISBN-13	9781529222494 / 9781529222494
Zustand	Neuware