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This is a first-hand account of the often appalling conditions in prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions, detention centres and other places where individuals are deprived of their liberty. It is based on extensive inspections in many countries in Europe, including the UK, France, Spain, Greece and Turkey, by a group of inspectors who had hitherto unparalleled access to institutions of detention. Inhuman States is a gripping account of the seamy side of Europe, of those 'social dustbins' that most people tend to ignore and of the practices - including torture - which take place within them. But it is also a book about some general concepts - what is 'human'? What should 'inhuman' or 'degrading' mean? Should general standards be uniformly applied to countries with diverse traditions, legal systems and conditions of life? This book is also a forceful plea for a better and more civilized Europe. Cassese argues that Europe should be unified not only in the field of markets, banks, lawyers, and commerce: an effort should also be made to set out and implement at least some common European standards of justice with regard to those places of detention where each country relegates its misfits, deviants and all those who are thought to imperil the social fabric.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Inhuman States
• Subtitle: Imprisonment, Detention and Torture in Europe Today
• Author: Antonio Cassese
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• EAN: 9780745617220
• ISBN: 0745617220
• ID: 02428629
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 141 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. September 1996

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