This book examines human rights and penitentiary law in Central Eastern European and Latin American countries from a comparative perspective. How are penitentiary systems and human rights currently being transformed in both regions? This question guides contributors hailing from both Central Eastern Europe and Latin America, filling the gaps at both the international and national level. The book compares Central Eastern European countries with Latin American countries, shedding new light on similarities and differences alike.
The main themes of this book are the analysis of penitentiary systems in different countries and a general analysis of criminal and criminological issues. The respective chapters examine how penitentiary laws are changing within different contexts and regulatory regimes. The book seeks to cross boundaries to understand new divisions, fragmentations, and forms of authoritarianism in today’s world, more specifically in Poland, North Macedonia, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Mexico.
Introduction.- Human rights in the context of post-conviction preventive
detention in Poland.- Execution of a prison sentence. International standards
- the local perspective.- Rehabilitation vs. Retribution/Repression: An
Introduction to Systemic Contradictions in the Czech Penitentiary System.-
Restorative vs punitive approach. Eight fundamental principles of juvenile
delinquency prevention.- Human rights in Chilean prisons: advances, setbacks
and challenges for prison reform.- Crisis of the penitentiary system in Peru
in light of the fight against drugs.- Prisons in Argentina and challenges of
human rights.- Penitentiary system and community justice in Mexico.-
Conclusions.
Dr. Lukasz Czarnecki is an associate professor at the Institute of Law, Administration and Economics, the Pedagogical University of Kraków. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2012), the University of Strasbourg (2015), and Juris Doctoris from the Jagiellonian University of Kraków (2019). His research interests include comparative and transformative constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean, the rule of law and its relations with inequalities, exclusions, imprisonment, and subjective wellbeing, based on mixed-method research. He is a member of the board of the International Sociological Association RC06 Research on Families (2023-2027, and also a member of the Editorial Board, Oñati Socio-Legal Series.
