Main description:

Revealing many notable and interesting changes in prison life and in release programmes, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of Penology, Criminology, Law, Sociology and Public Health. It will also appeal to Criminal Justice practitioners and policy makers.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Frieder Dunkel, Stefan Harrendorf and Dirk van Zyl Smit

National chapters

2. Australia

Lorana Bartels, Thalia Anthony, Felicity Gerry, Andreea Lachsz and Steven Caruana

3. Austria

Walter Hammerschick and Karin Bruckmuller

4. Belgium

Olivia Nederlandt, An-Sofie Vanhouche and Kristel Beyens

5. Brazil

Ellen Rodrigues and Eduardo Khoury

6. Canada

Sandra Bucerius, Rosemary Ricciardelli and Luca Berardi

7. Chile

Alvaro Castro Morales, Guillermo Sanhueza, Julio Cortez and Violeta Puran

8. China

Spencer Li

9. Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina

Cesar Valderrama and Juan Hernandez

10. Costa Rica

Carlos Tiffer-Sotomayor and Paola Tiffer Hangen

11. Croatia

Maja Munivrana Vajda and Elizabeta Ivicevic Karas

12. Czech Republic

Helena Valkova and Jana Hulmakova

13. Denmark

Anette Storgaard and Linda Kjaer Minke

14. England/Wales

Catherine Heard and Nicola Padfield

15. Estonia

Priit Kama and Anneli Soo

16. Finland

Tapio Lappi-Seppala

17. France

Martine Herzog-Evans

18. Germany

Frieder Dunkel and Christine Morgenstern

19. Greece

Maria Anagnostaki

20. Hungary

Zsuzsanna Juhasz

21. India

Madhurima Dhanuka

22. Ireland (including Northern Ireland)

Ciara O'Connell, Mary Rogan, Michelle Martyn and Shadd Maruna

23. Italy

Lorenzo Picotti and Luisa Ravagnani

24. Japan

Kenji Takeuchi and Akinori Otani

25. Kenya

Mercy Deche, Conrad Bosire and Sarah Kinyanjui

26. Latvia

Ilona Kronberga

27. Lithuania

Gintautas Sakalauskas

28. Netherlands

Jolande uit Beijerse and Miranda Boone

29. New Zealand

Alice Mills

30. North Macedonia

Gordana Lazetic and Elena Mujoska-Trpevska

31. Norway

Berit Johnsen

32. Poland

Barbara Stando-Kawecka

33. Portugal

Anabela Miranda Rodriguez and Ines Horta Pinto

34. Romania

Ioan Durnescu and Ioana Mihaela Morar

35. Russia

Sergey Ovchinnikov

36. Scotland

Hannah Graham and Katrina Morrison

37. Serbia

Milan Skulic

38. Slovakia

Miroslava Vrablova

39. Slovenia

Danijela Mrhar Prelic and Robert Friskovec

40. South Africa

Lukas Muntingh

41. Spain

Josep Cid, Laura Negredo Lopez and Carles Soler

42. Sweden

Lars Hakan Nilsson and Jenny Karrholm

43. Switzerland

Melanie Wegel and Jonas Weber

44. Turkey

Galma Akdeniz and Idil Aydinoglu

45. USA

James Byrne, Don Hummer, Sabrina S. Rapisarda and Kimberly R. Kras

Comparative chapters

46. International prisoners and the pandemic - Seeking release, improved conditions and family contact before international criminal courts

Roisin Mulgrew

47. International Human Rights and COVID-19 in prisons: Medical isolation and independent oversight

Dirk van Zyl Smit, Roisin Mulgrew

48. Prison population rates before and during the pandemic: lessons from COVID-19 about over-incarceration and its consequences for health

Catherine Heard

49. Summary analysis of the situation in prisons and prison policy during and after the SARS-CoV-2 induced crisis

Frieder Dunkel, Stefan Harrendorf, Dirk van Zyl Smit

50. What could we learn from COVID-19? - a reductionist and penal moderation approach

Frieder Dunkel, Sonja Snacken