Criminal disenfranchisement in an international perspective

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Voting rights and human rights: a comparative analysis of criminal disenfranchisement laws / Laleh Ispahani -- Punishment and social exclusion: national differences in prisoner disenfranchisement / Christopher Uggen, Mischelle Van Brakle, and Heather McLaughlin -- U.S. felon disenfranchisement: parting ways with western Europe / Nora V. Demleitner -- The right to universal, equal, and nondiscriminatory suffrage as a norm of customary international law: protecting the prisoner's right to vote / Richard J. Wilson -- Our crooked timber: why is American punishment so harsh? / Elizabeth A. Hull -- The politics and legality of prisoner disenfranchisement in Australian federal elections / Ronnit Redman, David Brown, and Bryan Mercurio -- The campaign for prisoner voting rights in Ireland / Claire Hamilton and Rick Lines -- The ballot as a bulwark: prisoners' right to vote in South Africa / Lukas Muntingh and Julia Sloth-Nielsen -- The right to vote in Danish prisons / Anette Storgaard -- In defense of prisoner disenfranchisement / Christopher P. Manfredi.