Isolating children in detention: Cautioning international comparisons
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Isolating children in detention : Cautioning international comparisons. / Cakal, Ergun.
I: Alternative Law Journal, Bind 48, Nr. 3, 2023, s. 166-171.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Isolating children in detention
T2 - Cautioning international comparisons
AU - Cakal, Ergun
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Solitary confinement of children is increasingly being challenged in Australian courts, with rulings recently handed down in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Recent international jurisprudence on the harmful practice, and on torture more broadly, stands poised to advance the local cause. This article warns that some international perspectives are outdated, with faulty or politically charged logics, and that, while appearing measured at first sight, reliance on older jurisprudence may ultimately impede progress. Comparative reasoning thus warrants careful consideration, given the complex political (hierarchical, state-deferential), definitional and evidential dynamics (conceiving and substantiating harm, purpose, intention) at play in adjudicating torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.
AB - Solitary confinement of children is increasingly being challenged in Australian courts, with rulings recently handed down in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Recent international jurisprudence on the harmful practice, and on torture more broadly, stands poised to advance the local cause. This article warns that some international perspectives are outdated, with faulty or politically charged logics, and that, while appearing measured at first sight, reliance on older jurisprudence may ultimately impede progress. Comparative reasoning thus warrants careful consideration, given the complex political (hierarchical, state-deferential), definitional and evidential dynamics (conceiving and substantiating harm, purpose, intention) at play in adjudicating torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.
U2 - 10.1177/1037969X231179862
DO - 10.1177/1037969X231179862
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48
SP - 166
EP - 171
JO - Alternative Law Journal
JF - Alternative Law Journal
SN - 1037-969X
IS - 3
ER -
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