Human Rights Protection and Ius Puniendi Perspectives from Central East Europe and Latin American Countries

Introduction.- Human rights in the context of post-conviction preventive detention in Poland.- Execution of a prison sentence. International standards - the local perspective.- Rehabilitation vs. Retribution/Repression: An Introduction to Systemic Contradictions in the Czech Penitentiary System.- Restorative vs punitive approach. Eight fundamental principles of juvenile delinquency prevention.- Human rights in Chilean prisons: advances, setbacks and challenges for prison reform.- Crisis of the penitentiary system in Peru in light of the fight against drugs.- Prisons in Argentina and challenges of human rights.- Penitentiary system and community justice in Mexico.- Conclusions.

Dr. Lukasz Czarnecki is an associate professor at the Institute of Law, Administration and Economics, the Pedagogical University of Kraków. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2012), the University of Strasbourg (2015), and Juris Doctoris from the Jagiellonian University of Kraków (2019). His research interests include comparative and transformative constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean, the rule of law and its relations with inequalities, exclusions, imprisonment, and subjective wellbeing, based on mixed-method research. He is a member of the board of the International Sociological Association RC06 Research on Families (2023-2027, and also a member of the Editorial Board, Oñati Socio-Legal Series.