Search for dissertations about: "imprisonment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word imprisonment.

  1. 1. Ethics of Imprisonment : Essays in Criminal Justice Ethics

    Author : William Bülow; Till Grüne-Yanoff; Göran Duus-Otterström; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Collateral Harms; Communicative Theory of Punishment; Consequentialism; Criminal Justice Ethics; Doctrine of Double Effect; Electronic Monitoring; Imprisonment; Legal Punishment; Moral Education Theory of Punishment; Privacy; Philosophy of Punishment; Retributivism; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : This licentiate thesis consists of three essays which all concern the ethics of imprisonment and what constitutes an ethically defensible treatment of criminal offenders.Paper 1 defends the claim that prisoners have a right to privacy. I argue that the right to privacy is important because of its connection to moral agency. READ MORE

  2. 2. Unfit to live among others : Essays on the ethics of imprisonment

    Author : William Bülow; Till Grüne-Yanoff; Christopher Bennett; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Applied Ethics; Collateral Harm; Communicative Theory of Punishment; Democratic Self- determination; Doctrine of Double Effect; Felon Disenfranchisement; Imprisonment; Legal Punishment; Practical Philosophy; Philosophy of Punishment; Privacy; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : This thesis provides an ethical analysis of imprisonment as a mode of punishment. Consisting in an introduction and four papers the thesis addresses several important questions concerning imprisonment from a number of different perspectives and theoretical starting points. READ MORE

  3. 3. War-wounded refugees : A prospective study of well-being and social integration

    Author : Ann-Charlotte Hermansson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : This thesis is a prospective study of a culturally heterogenous group of war-wounded refugees, who arrived in Sweden in the late 1980s. The general aim was to describe the situation of warwounded refugees from medical, psychological and social perspectives after arrival and aftertwo years in Sweden and, if possible, to identify factors of significance for their well-being and social integration. READ MORE

  4. 4. Between Death and Resurrection : Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead on the Eve of the Peasant Emancipation

    Author : Cecilia Dilworth; Anna Ljunggren; Robin Feuer Miller; Philip Bullock; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fyodor Dostoevsky; House of the Dead; Russian realism; prison literature; emancipation; serfdom; peasant fiction; folk culture; death and resurrection; ambivalence; laughter; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the House of the Dead (1860–1862), a semi-documentary rendition of life in a Siberian prison of the 1850s. The work is read against the background of the pivotal historical event coinciding with its writing and publication: the peasant emancipation of 1861. READ MORE

  5. 5. Smuggle, Frame, Shoot : Illicit Media Practices and Visual Insurgency from Lebanese Incarceration

    Author : Chafic T. Najem; Kari Andén-Papadopoulos; Malin Wahlberg; Anne Kaun; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; media studies; visual culture; media practice; media witnessing; digital activism; vulnerability; prison practices; prison representations; prison testimonies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : This research explores prisoners’ illicit use of digital-media technology during their incarceration in Lebanon. Prisoners smuggle cellphones and access internet and telecommunication connection to produce and mediate videos, images, and voice recordings documenting quotidian experiences of imprisonment, violent events, and the COVID-19 Pandemic inside the notorious and overcrowded Roumieh Central Prison. READ MORE