Lacey, Nicola (2013) Denying prisoners the vote creates a barrier to theirreintegration into society. Democratic Audit Blog (25 Oct 2013). Website.
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Abstract
Parliament is currently considering how to relax the UK’s restrictions on prisoner voting, which have been deemed in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. In this post Nicola Lacey argues that our ongoing failure to extend voting rights to prisoners creates a powerful symbol of their exclusion from full membership of society.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.democraticaudit.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Democratic Audit UK |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2014 10:43 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 18:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55414 |
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