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Criminal disenfranchisement in an international perspective /
This collection of original essays by leading scholars and advocates offers the first international examination of the nature, causes, and effects of laws regulating voting by people with criminal convictions. In deciding whether prisoners shall retain the right to vote, a country faces vital questi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword : Waves of democracy and criminal disenfranchisement / Jeff Manza
- Voting rights and human rights : a comparative analysis of criminal disenfranchisement laws / Laleh Ispahani
- Punishment and social exclusion : national differences in prisoner disenfranchisement / Christopher Uggen, Mischelle Van Brakle, and Heather McLaughlin
- U.S. felon disenfranchisement : parting ways with western Europe / Nora V. Demleitner
- The right to universal, equal, and nondiscriminatory suffrage as a norm of customary international law : protecting the prisoner's right to vote / Richard J. Wilson
- Our 'crooked timber' : why is American punishment so harsh? / Elizabeth A. Hull
- The politics and legality of prisoner disenfranchisement in Australian federal elections / Ronnit Redman, David Brown, and Bryan Mercurio
- The politics and legality of prisoner disenfranchisement in Australian federal elections / Ronnit Redman, David Brown, and bryan Mercurio
- The campaign for prisoner voting rights in Ireland / Claire Hamilton and Rick Lines
- The ballot as a bulwark : prisoners' right to vote in South Africa / Lukas Muntingh and Julia Sloth-Nielsen
- The right to vote in Danish prisons / Anette Storgaard
- In defense of prisoner disenfranchisement / Christopher P. Manfredi.