Tag: Mary Bosworth

Inside immigration detention centres: Uncoupling detention from a criminal justice imagination

Inside immigration detention centres: Uncoupling detention from a criminal justice imagination

Mary Bosworth‘s research investigates immigration detentions centres in the UK. She argues that the potentially open-ended nature of detention has a profound effect on staff and detainees, making it difficult for the former to plan a regime while, for the latter, creating an environment of uncertainty. The current system is not inevitable, and so, she argues, […]