ABSTRACT
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current directions in social rehabilitation scholarship and research by bringing together the voices of legal scholars, criminal justice professionals, social scientists, and people directly impacted by criminal justice in a comparative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion.
The volume offers a narrative of social rehabilitation in penal contexts through five main domains: theoretical-philosophical, legal-comparative, human rights, social scientific, lived experience, and policy. Collectively, the contributions provide a systematised examination of the normative facets of social rehabilitation and illustrate avenues for its implementation in criminal justice domains in the full respect of the rights of justice-involved individuals, casting a critical gaze on some the mainstream narratives dominating contemporary penal policy. The overarching legal approach is complemented by a selection of perspectives in social rehabilitation research emanating from social psychology, critical criminology, penology, and neuroscience. These perspectives inform and enrich the legal and jurisprudential debates on the qualification of social rehabilitation as a fundamental goal of justice across domestic and international legal systems.
The book will be of value to academics, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers interested in current research dealing with the problem of punishment and the potential of social rehabilitation to more effectively deal with crime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|89 pages
The Normative Facets of Social Rehabilitation
chapter 3|17 pages
Social Rehabilitation Through Restoration?
part II|71 pages
Social Rehabilitation and Law in Action
chapter 6|23 pages
Social Rehabilitation, European Penology, and Supranational Courts
chapter 7|16 pages
Social Rehabilitation Under the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution
chapter 8|13 pages
Civil Society Organisations and Social Rehabilitation
chapter 9|17 pages
Social Rehabilitation and Torture Prevention Bodies in International Human Rights Law
part III|75 pages
Social Rehabilitation and the Multiple Forms of Legal Punishment
chapter 11|12 pages
Social Rehabilitation During and After a Life Sentence
chapter 13|19 pages
The (Im)Possible Link Between Social Rehabilitation and Fines
chapter 14|18 pages
What About Us?
part IV|86 pages
Current Directions in Social Rehabilitation Research