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almahu_9949767407002882
Format:
1 online resource (311 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781529222517
Content:
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines how governments misuse detention to abuse power, suppress dissent and maintain social hierarchies. Proposing solutions for future policy, this is a call for greater respect for the rule of law and human rights.
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Front Cover -- Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention: Power, Punishment and Control -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The impetus for the book -- 1.2 Some of the themes explored in the book -- 1.3 The trajectory -- Part I Theorising and Conceptualising "Arbitrariness" -- 2 Notions of the "Arbitrary" -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Multiple meanings -- 2.3 Theorising "arbitrariness" -- 2.4 "Arbitrariness" in human rights law -- 2.4.1 "Arbitrariness" and the social conception of rights -- 2.4.2 "Arbitrary interference" and human rights decision-making -- (i) Qualified rights -- (ii) Limited rights: the arbitrary deprivation of the right to life -- 2.4.3 "Arbitrariness" and positive obligations -- 2.5 The "arbitrariness" in arbitrary detention -- 2.5.1 The history and meaning of "arbitrary" in arbitrary detention -- 2.5.2 Arbitrary detention: both qualified and limited -- 2.5.3 States' positive obligations to ensure that detention is non-arbitrary -- 2.5.4 Relationship with other rights -- 2.6 The grey zones of "detention" and their impact on arbitrariness -- 2.7 Conclusions -- 3 "Arbitrariness" as an Indication of Harm -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The harms of arbitrary detention -- 3.3 Connection to torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment -- 3.3.1 The torture definition and its component parts -- (i) Severity -- (ii) For such purposes as -- (iii) The involvement of the state -- (iv) Does not constitute lawful sanctions -- 3.3.2 Other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Part II The Law and Practice of Arbitrary Detention in Context -- 4 Enforcing Hostility and Social Control -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Agamben and the theorisation of containment.
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4.3 Methods of containment -- 4.3.1 Detention as criminalisation -- 4.3.2 Detention as pathologisation -- 4.3.3 Detention as deterrence -- 4.4 The arbitrary detention of socially excluded and marginalised groups -- 4.4.1 The "unseen": economic and social "degenerates" -- (i) Detention of persons who are homeless -- (ii) Detention on mental health grounds -- (iii) Detention of people who use drugs -- 4.4.2 The "reviled and resented": racism, xenophobia, and other discriminatory treatment -- (i) Groups discriminated against based on race, ethnicity or religious identity -- (ii) Indigenous peoples -- (iii) Discrimination based on gender or gendered roles -- 4.4.3 The "undeserving": refugees and other migrants -- 4.5 Conclusions -- 5 Deterring Dissent -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 How arbitrary detention is used to deter dissent -- 5.2.1 Criminalisation -- (i) Securitising dissent -- (ii) Criminally defamatory speech acts -- 5.2.2 Pathologising dissent -- 5.2.3 Isolating dissenters and using other non-traditional forms of detention -- 5.3 The dissenters -- 5.3.1 Opposition politicians -- 5.3.2 Environmental activists -- 5.3.3 Mass protest movements -- 5.4 Ulterior or pretextual motives -- 5.5 Interpol and the cross-border persecution of dissenters -- 5.6 Conclusions -- 6 The Securitisation of Detention: Exceptional Regimes, Security Frameworks and Counter-Terrorism Measures -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The power of the exception and the shunning of the everyday -- 6.2.1 The exigent exception: emergencies, exceptions and derogations -- 6.2.2 The exception of place: denial of extraterritoriality -- 6.2.3 The person as exception: "terrorists", "non-combatants" and other rhetorical labels -- 6.2.4 The exception of law: lawfare and other narrative devices -- 6.3 Detention during armed conflicts -- 6.3.1 Detention by multinational forces.
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6.3.2 "Extraterritorial NIACs", UN Security Council resolutions and the power to detain -- 6.3.3 Challenges with the transfer of detainees -- 6.4 National security, counter-terrorism and indefinite detention -- 6.4.1 Counter-terrorism and forever prisoners -- 6.4.2 Da'esh and quasi-carceral zones of exclusion -- 6.5 Conclusions -- 7 Detention of Dual and Foreign Nationals for Leverage -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Arbitrary detentions and state-to-state leverage: the practice -- 7.3 The salience of labels: arbitrary detention, hostage-taking and unlawful coercion -- 7.3.1 The human rights violation of arbitrary detention -- 7.3.2 The crime of hostage-taking -- (i) 'Any person' -- (ii) 'In order to compel' -- (iii) Application to dual nationals detained in one of their states of nationality -- 7.3.3 Violating the principle of non-intervention -- 7.4 Negotiating release -- 7.5 Conclusions: the importance of multilateral approaches -- 8 Detention and Pandemic Exceptionality -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Human rights, infectious diseases and the positive obligation of non-discrimination -- 8.3 The proportionality of anti-COVID measures that deprive persons of their liberty -- 8.4 Quarantines, lockdowns and other pandemic-related restrictions on liberty -- 8.5 Confinement: positive obligations in a state of hyper-engagement -- 8.5.1 Reconciling the equivalence of care principle in a pandemic -- 8.5.2 Anti-COVID measures in detention centres -- 8.5.3 Access to vaccines and treatment for detainees -- 8.5.4 COVID-19 and justifications for early release -- 8.6 Conclusions: the transformative potential of positive obligations -- 9 Conclusions -- Index.
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Print version: Ferstman, Carla Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2024
Language:
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