Luk Vervaet
Biographic Data
| ID | 158931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luk Vervaet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luk |
| FAMILY NAME | Vervaet |
| SIGNATURE | VERVAET L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Belgian Prison Policy
Almost half a century ago, in 1973, I was locked up for a month in the prison of the Begijnenstraat in Antwerp.I was 20 years old when I got to know for the fi rst time about the interior of a police station, then a cell in the basement of the Antwerp courthouse, followed by a prison cell, the one in Begijnenstraat, 1 and fi nally with a courtroom.As a young activist, I had joined about 20 other people from Alle Macht aan de Arbeiders (AMADA, All…
Memorial tributes to A. Sivanandan
The Guantánamo-isation of Belgium
Features of the American global war on terror, with its Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons, where captured detainees are kept outside the national rule of law and international conventions, are being emulated by European democracies, which introduce similar illegal concepts and practices into their penal policies. Now an enthusiastic partner of the US in the war on terror, the Belgian state, fractured internally by the linguistic and regiona…
The violence of incarceration
The publication of The Violence of Incarceration, a collection of essays on imprisonment and state violence in the US, UK and Australia, edited by Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch, provides an opportunity to reflect on the steady convergence of mainland Europe s penal policies with those of the US. This convergence undermines any notion of a European moral high ground in relation to incarceration and reflects a general trend among western states o…
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The violence of incarceration
The publication of The Violence of Incarceration, a collection of essays on imprisonment and state violence in the US, UK and Australia, edited by Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch, provides an opportunity to reflect on the steady convergence of mainland Europe s penal policies with those of the US. This convergence undermines any notion of a European moral high ground in relation to incarceration and reflects a general trend among western states o…
The Guantánamo-isation of Belgium
Features of the American global war on terror, with its Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons, where captured detainees are kept outside the national rule of law and international conventions, are being emulated by European democracies, which introduce similar illegal concepts and practices into their penal policies. Now an enthusiastic partner of the US in the war on terror, the Belgian state, fractured internally by the linguistic and regiona…
Memorial tributes to A. Sivanandan
Belgian Prison Policy
Almost half a century ago, in 1973, I was locked up for a month in the prison of the Begijnenstraat in Antwerp.I was 20 years old when I got to know for the fi rst time about the interior of a police station, then a cell in the basement of the Antwerp courthouse, followed by a prison cell, the one in Begijnenstraat, 1 and fi nally with a courtroom.As a young activist, I had joined about 20 other people from Alle Macht aan de Arbeiders (AMADA, All…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Prison (2 works) · Torture (2 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (2 works)