TY - BOOK AU - Sabine Carl PY - 2014 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653037470 TI - Proliferation and Implementation of Prison Ombudsmen T2 - Comparative Analysis of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales and the Justizvollzugsbeauftragter des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-03747-0 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047907 N2 - 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 explains which needs these institutions were intended to meet, why they spread around the globe and how their proliferation determined their implementation. Using a grounded theory approach, the author examines one subject each from both the common and civil law world. The result is a detailed analysis of the acute impact of pressure on cross-fertilization processes involving human rights-sensitive penal institutions. KW - Ombudsmann, Menschenrechte, Bewährung (jur.) LA - English ER -