The European committee for the prevention of torture and the gendered experience of imprisonment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21584520 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ciara O’Connell (0000-0002-5925-0587, Trinity College Dublin, corresponding author), Eva Aizpurua (0000-0001-7045-5535, Trinity College Dublin), Mary Rogan (0000-0002-2279-9891, Trinity College Dublin) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 445-468 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Crime Law and Social Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-4994 • E-ISSN: 1573-0751 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10611-021-09938-1 |
| OpenAlex | W3087607403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) is a supranational prison oversight body tasked with carrying out visits to places of detention across Europe. Prisons fall within the remit of the CPT, and much like prisons themselves, CPT prison visits tend to focus on the male experience of imprisonment. However, the experience of imprisonment is inherently gendered and, as such, the experiences, treatment and needs of cisgender men do not necessarily represent those of cisgender women and transgender people in prison. Therefore, it follows that a different approach is also required when it comes to prison monitoring activities carried out by the CPT. This paper introduces CPT standards and the international legal framework on gender and imprisonment. It reflects on analysis of three years of CPT reporting to explore how the CPT considers the gendered experience of imprisonment. To this end, the paper considers the potential impact of the gender composition of CPT delegations, as well as provides a descriptive content analysis of CPT reports to determine how the CPT accounts for gender-specific treatment and conditions in prison. This paper poses questions and provides suggestions around how gender can be made more central across all human rights monitoring bodies operating in the penal field, both internationally and domestically
Criminology · Human rights · Imprisonment · Political science · Prison · Torture · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
Embedding Human Rights in Prison
Transgender people
Gender-Responsive Lessons Learned and Policy Implications for Women in Prison
The Feminization of Transgender Women in Prisons for Men
Protecting Prisoners
Analysing Women's Imprisonment
Carceral framing of human rights in Russian prisons
Sexual Violence Inside Prisons
More Women - But Which Women? The Rule and the Politics of Gender Balance at the European Court of Human Rights
The impact of imprisonment on health
Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison
Slaves and Statues
At Risk of Rights
Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |