Articles
“Dignity unlocked? The Nelson Mandela Rules as a key to the transnational legal ordering of imprisonment” (2023) Archives of Criminology DOI 10.7420/AK2023.07 (online https://czasopisma.inp.pan.pl/index.php/ak/article/view/4138/2781 )
“Extradition and Whole Life Sentences” (with Christopher Seeds) (2023) Criminal Law Forum (online https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-023-09476-6 } 1-37.
„Der Einfluss von COVID-19 auf den Strafvollzug – Ergebnisse einer internationalen Bestandsaufnahme und kriminal- bzw. strafvollzugspolitische Schlussfolgerungen“ (with Frieder Dünkel and Stefan Harrendorf) (2022) 34 Neue Kriminalpolitik 272-290.
“R v. Bissonnette: Supreme Court of Canada builds on ECtHR precedents to outlaw whole life imprisonment, and develops principles applicable also to extradition that may lead to such sentences” https://strasbourgobservers.com/2022/06/28/r-v-bissonnette-supreme-court-of-canada-builds-on-ecthr-precedents-to-outlaw-whole-life-imprisonment-and-develops-principles-applicable-also-to-extradition-that-may-lead-to-such-sentences/
“The European Human Rights System and the Right to Life Seen through Suicide Prevention in Places of Detention: Between Risk Management and Punishment” (with Gaëtan Cliquennois) (2022) 22 Human Rights Law Review 1–28.
“Can European human rights instruments limit the power of the national state to punish? A tale of two Europes” (with Gaëtan Cliquennois and Sonja Snacken) (2021) 18 European Journal of Criminology 11–32.
“What’s new in the 2020 European Prison Rules? Innovative provisions on separation, solitary confinement, and other prison practices” (with Harvey Slade) November 2020 The Art of Crime (in English and Greek).
“The Paradox of Scottish Life Imprisonment” (with Katrina Morrison) (2020) 28 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 76-101.
“International Prison Standards and Transnational Criminal Justice” (2019) 4 UCI Journal of International, Transnational and Comparative Law, 101-127.
“Un acercamiento a la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos sobre la cadena perpetua y a su posible proyección sobre la prisión permanente revisable en España” (with Cristina Rodríguez Yagüe) (2019) 31 Revista General de Derecho Penal, 1-31.
“The Ultimate Penalty” (with Catherine Appleton) (2018) 19 New Philosopher 88-93.
“Rehabilitation as a Dominant Idea in European Prison Law: Problems and Prospects” (2018) New Series, No. 1, Romanian Journal of Sociological Studies, 9–18.
“Lebenslang in Europa: Die neue Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte“ (with Angelika Reichstein,) (2017) 4 Forum Strafvollzug 229-234.
„Réhabilitation et une perspective de libération pour toute personne condamnée à la réclusion à perpétuité“ (with Vicky Vouleli) 2016 Actualité Juridique 322-325
“Human Dignity and Life Imprisonment: The Pope Enters the Debate” (with M. Abellán Almenara) (2015), Human Rights Law Review,369–376.
„Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe in einer globalisierten Welt“ (2015) 27 Neue Kriminalpolitik 171-180.
“‘One cannot legislate kindness’: Ambiguities in European legal instruments on non-custodial sanctions” (with Sonja Snacken and David Hayes) (2015) 17 Punishment and Society 3–26.
“La Pena Dell’ergastolo in un Mondo Globalizzato” 2014 Criminalia: Annuario die sceinze penalistische 59-74
“Whole Life Sentences and the Tide of European Human rights Jurisprudence: What is to be Done?” (with Pete Weatherby and Simon Creighton) (2014) 14 Human Rights Law Review 59-84.
“Droit de toute personne condamnée à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité d’avoir une perspective de libération. Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, Grande chambre, 9 juillet 2013, n° 66069/09, 130/10, 3896/10 Vinter et autres c/ Royaume-Uni” 2013 Actualité Juridique Pénal 494-496.
“De levenslange vrijheidsstraf internationaal vergeleken” (2013) 39 (1) Justitiële verkenningen 12-31.
Inconstitutionnalité de la réclusion à perpétuité sans libération conditionnelle obligatoire pour les mineurs meurtriers (Cour Suprême des Etats Unis, Miller contre Alabama, 25 juin 2012 (567 US – (2012)) 2012 Actualité Juridique Pénal 607-609.
“What is in a name? Preventive Detention in Germany in the Shadow of European Human Rights Law” (with Kirstin Drenkhahn and Christine Morgenstern) 2012 Criminal Law Review 167-187.
„La Chambre suprême des États-Unis ordonne à l’État californien de libérer des milliers de détenus” 2012 Actualité Juridique Pénal 108-110.
“Pozaeuropejskie wpływy penologii europejskiej” (with Sonja Snacken) (2011) 33 Archiwum Kryminologii 503-514.
“Regulation of Prison Conditions” (2010) 39 Crime and Justice 503-563.
“Outlawing irreducible life sentences - Europe on the brink?” (2010) 23 (1) Federal Sentencing Reporter 39-48.
“European Penal Policy and National Penal Practices - Lessons for Scotland?” (2010) 16 Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies 4-19.
“Prawa Więźniów W Perspektywie Europejskiej Ostatnich Lat” (with Sonja Snacken) (2009) 31 Archiwum Kryminologii 7-34.
“Europejskie Reguły Wykonywania Sankcji I Środków Orzeczonych Wobec Nieletnich Sprawców Czynów Karalnych” (with Frieder Dünkel and Andrea Baechtold) (2009) 31 Archiwum Kryminologii 35-60.
„Die Europäische Grundsätze über Sanktionen an jugendlichen Straftätern“ (with Andrea Baechtold and Frieder Dünkel) (2009) 9(2) Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Kriminologie 49-59.
„Europäische Standards zu langen Freiheitsstrafen: Aspekte des Strafrechts, der Strafvollzugsforschung und der Menschenrechte“ (with Sonja Snacken) (2009) 21 (2) Neue Kriminalpolitik 58-68.
“Lange vrijheidsbeneming in binnen- en buiteland” 2008/6 Sancties 317-327.
“Die Durchsetzung europäischer Prinzipien im Strafvollzug – Parallelen zur Abschaffung der Todesstrafe?“ 2008/6 Greifrecht 88-95.
“The implementation of youth imprisonment and constitutional law in Germany”(with Frieder Dünkel) (2007) 9 Punishment and Society 347-369 .
“Humanising Imprisonment: A European project?” (2006) 29 European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research 107-120.
“Life Imprisonment: Recent Issues in National and International Law” (2006) 29 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 405-421.
“The Abolition of Capital Punishment for Persons under the Age of Eighteen Years in the United States of America. What Next?” (2005) 5 Human Rights Law Review
393-401.
“International Imprisonment” (2005) 54 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 357-386
“Nachträgliche Sicherungsverwahrung”(with Frieder Dünkel) (2004) 43 Kriminalpädagogische Praxis 47-57.
“The Death Penalty in Africa” (2004) 4 African Human Rights Law Journal 1-16.
“Disproportionate Sentences as Human Rights Violations” (with Andrew Ashworth) (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 541-560.
“Preventive Detention of Dangerous Offenders re-examined: A comment on two decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG – 2 BvR 2029/01 of 5 February 2004 and BVerfG – 2 BvR 834/02 – BvR 1558/02 of 10 February 2004) and the Federal Draft Bill on Preventive Detention of 9 March 2004” (with Frieder Dünkel) (2004) 5 German Law Journal 619-637.
“De blik van een buitestaander op de voorstellen tot hervorming van de straftoemeting in België” (2004) 22 (101) Fatik 5-9.
“Aspekte der Strafzumessung in der internationalen Strafjustiz” (2003) 115 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenchaft 931-957.
“Human rights and sentencing guidelines” (2003) 5 Law Democracy and Development 45-52.
“Civil disabilities of former prisoners in a constitutional democracy: Building on the South African experience” 2003 Acta Juridica 221 – 237.
"Punishment and Human Rights in International Criminal Justice." (2002) 2 Human Rights Law Review 1-17.
"Tresní právo a sociální kontrola". (2001) 9 Právní Rozhledy 109 114.
“Abolishing Life imprisonment?” (2001) 3 Punishment and Society 299-306.
“Harte Strafjustiz: Typisch für Süd-Afrika?” (2001) 50 Zeitschrift für Strafvollzug und Straffälligenhilfe 71-76.
“The Place of Criminal Law in Contemporary Crime Control Strategies” (2000) 8 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 361-376.
“Mandatory sentences: A conundrum for the new South Africa?” (2000) 2 Punishment and Society 197-212.
“Prosecuting authority in the New South Africa”(with E. Steyn) (2000) 8 CIJL Yearbook 137-155.
“Individual liberty in crisis? Reflections on the decision of the Constitutional Court in S v Dlamini; S v Dladla and Others; S v Joubert; S v Schietekat.” (with J. Sarkin, E. Steyn, and R. Paschke) (2000) 16 South African Journal on Human Rights, 292-312.
“Editorial: International Regulation of Punishment”(with A Coyle) (2000) 2 Punishment and Society 259-262
“Anchoring the Treatment of Sentenced Prisoners in a Rights Discourse: the Example of Prison Labour in German Prison Law” (1999) 116 South African Law Journal 613-624.
„Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten hinsichtlich lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafen in den U.S.A.?“ (with Anna Oppert) (1999) 111 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenchaft 558-576.
“Criminological Ideas and the South African Transition” (1999) 39 British Journal of Criminology 198-215.
“Life Imprisonment as the Ultimate Penalty in International Human Rights Law” (1999) 9 Criminal Law Forum 5-54.
“Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Departures from Them in Substantial and Compelling Circumstances” (1999) 15 South African Journal on Human Rights 270-276.
“Privatised prisons and the Constitution” (with Hugh Corder) (1998) 11 South African Journal of Criminal Justice 475-490.
“Changing Prison Life” (1998) 48 University of Toronto Law Journal 451-457.
“Some features of correctional reform in South Africa” (1997) 11 Acta Criminologica 47-57.
"Gefängnisarbeit - Ein 'Reservat der Sklaverei'?" (with F Dünkel) 4/1996 Neue Kriminalpolitik 9-10,.
"Constitutional Jurisprudence and Proportionality in Sentencing" (1995) 4 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 369-380.
"Re-entering the International Community: South Africa and Extradition" (1995) 6 Criminal Law Forum 369-377.
"Is Capital Punishment Constitutional? The answer from Hungary" (1994) 7 South African Journal of Criminal Justice 348-352.
"Rechtliche Grundlagen und Grenzen gemeindebezogener Sanktionen" (with M Löschnig-Gspandl) (1994) 77 Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform 307-315.
"Reconciling the irreconcilable? Recent developments in the German law on abortion" (1994) 2 Medical Law Review, 302-320.
"Degrees of Freedom" (1994) 13 Criminal Justice Ethics 31-38.
"Legal standards and the limits of community sanctions" (1993) 1 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 309-331.
"Public Protest and Violence in South Africa - Past Wrongs and Future Rights" (1993) 2 Tilburg Foreign Law Review 321-340.
"Is Life Imprisonment Constitutional? - the German Experience" 1992 Public Law 263-278.
"A Legitimate Prison System in a Future South Africa?" (1992) 16 Legal Studies Forum 167-192.
"England: Streitpunkt Lebenslänglich" (August 1991) 3 Neue Kriminalpolitik 19-20.
"The Administration of Justice, Law Reform and Jurisprudence" (with E Cameron and G Marcus), 1989 Annual Survey of South African Law, (1991), 556-618; 1988 Annual Survey of South African Law (1989) 500-556 1987 Annual Survey of South African Law (1988) 482-536; 1986 Annual Survey of South African Law (1987) 545-591
"Adopting and adapting criminological ideas: Criminology and Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa" (1989) 13 Contemporary Crises 227-251.
"Indigence and the right to counsel" (1988) 4 South African Journal on Human Rights 363-369.
"Presence of legal advisers at the interrogation of suspects by the police" (1988) 1 South African Journal of Criminal Justice 295-300.
"Leave of absence for West German prisoners. Legal Principle and Administrative Practice" (1988) 28 British Journal of Criminology 1-18.
"South African prisons and international law" (1988) 4 South African Journal on Human Rights 21-36.
"The nature and effect of legislative and quasi-legislative administrative acts" (with A Rabie): “Part I” (1988) 3 SA Public Law 193-210; “Part II" (1989) 4 SA Public Law 74-82.
Sentencing: The Ratio between a Fine and an Alternative Period of Imprisonment" (with J Taitz) (1987) 11 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 220-225.
"`Normal' Prisons in an `Abnormal' Society? A comparative perspective on South African prison law and practice." (1987) 6(2) Criminal Justice Ethics 37-51; and republished in (1987) 3 South African Journal on Human Rights 147-166.
"Nochmals: Südafrikanischer Strafvollzug" 1986 Zeitschrift für Strafvollzug und Straffälligenhilfe 280-285.
"The Decision on how to Plead: A Study of Plea Negotiation in Supreme Court Criminal Matters" (with N-M Isakow) (1986) 10 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 3-20.
"The Limits of the Criminal Sanction" (1986) 11 Journal for Juridical Science 186-193.
"Assessors and Criminal Justice" (with N-M Isakow) (1985) 1 South African Journal on Human Rights 218-235.
"`Professional' Patent Agents and the Development of the English Patent System" (1985) 13 International Journal of the Sociology of Law 79-105.
"Facts from Figures: The Case of Influx Control" (1985) 9 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 89-91.
"The Administration of Justice, Law Reform and Jurisprudence" (with Edwin Cameron).1984 Annual Survey of South African Law (1985) 573-621; 1983 Annual Survey of South African Law (1984) 507-539; 1982 Annual Survey of South African Law (1983) 496-528; 1981 Annual Survey of South African Law (1982) 580-611; 1980 Annual Survey of South African Law (1981) 503-532; 1979 Annual Survey of South African Law (1980) 511-548; 1978 Annual Survey of South African Law (1979) 695-742.
"Negotiated justice and the legal context" (with Norma-May Isakow) April 1985 De Rebus 173-174.
"The Legislative Entitlement of Security Detainees and Prisoners' Rights" (1985) 1 South African Journal on Human Rights 160-165.
"Public Policy and the Punishment of Crime in a Divided Society: A Historical Perspective on the South African Penal System" (1984) 21/22 Crime and Social Justice 146-162; and republished in (1985) 1 Natal University Law and Society Review 54-67."The Compulsory Appointment of Assessors Reassessed" (1984) 101 South African Law Journal 212-216.
"Corporal Punishment - Joining Issue" (with Liz Offen)(1984) 8 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 69-74 .
"Criminology and Criminal Justice" (1983) 7 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 107-124.
"Judicial discretion and the sentence of death for murder" (1982) 99 South African Law Journal 87-98.
"Convicts on the Hard Road: Reflections on the system of convict labour introduced by John Montagu (1844-1853)" May 1981 De Rebus 223-226.
"A private person's title to prosecute: Mkhanya v Bailey 1980 (4) SA 713 (T)" (1981) 5 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 78-79.
"Judicial Appointments, Public Confidence and the Court Structure: Proposals for a New Approach" (with E Cameron and H Rudolph) September 1980 De Rebus 430-435.
"Criminological Theory and the Sociology of Law" (1980) 4 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 244-249.
"Section 112(3) of the Criminal Procedure Act: Khumalo 1978 (1) SA 516 (N) and Balepile 1979 (1) SA 701 (NC)" (1979) 3 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 74-77.
"The Compulsory Appointment of Assessors" (1979) 96 South African Law Journal 173-177.
"The Treatment of Official Crime Statistics in South African Criminology" (1977) 1 South African Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 123-134.