Beschreibung
Prison ombudsmen are charged with investigating claims of injustice and breaches of human rights within the total institutions of the penal system. This book comprehensively examines which needs these institutions were intended to meet, why they spread around the globe and how their proliferation determined their implementation.
Autorenportrait
Sabine Carl, born in Munich, studied law at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). In 2010, she was awarded a research scholarship by the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. During the research for her doctoral thesis she published original articles on ombudsmen in both German and English.
Inhalt
Contents: The Ombudsman Concept – Demand for Prison Ombudsmen – Learning Processes in between Legal Systems – The Process of Implementation of Prison Ombudsmen – Prison Ombudsmen as Products of Cross-Fertilization.
