Human Rights Excursion in Europe
The Committee for the Prevention of Torture and its Visit to the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12186889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brigitte Verhage (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-130 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leiden Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0922-1565 • E-ISSN: 1478-9698 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0922156500001679 |
| OpenAlex | W2125197008 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
“Todays prison seems to be more of a hotel than a real prison”, and “jailbirds live better lives than normal people do”, are phrases which you can hear quite often. The visit of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereafter CPT or the Committee) showed that this is certainly not true for British prisons. This Committee visited the United Kingdom from July 29 to August 10,1990 and drew an extensive report on its findings, to which the British Government reacted
Criminology · Excursion · Government (linguistics · Human rights · Kingdom · Political science · Prison · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Torture · Law · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |