Transgender Behind Bars

ICPA2023 Presentation by Pauline Jacobs (ICPA2023-PID101)

Author

Pauline Jacobs

Associate Professor, Tilburg University

Pauline Jacobs is Associate Professor in criminal (procedure) law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. In her PhD thesis (Antwerp: Intersentia 2012) she examined the use of force-feeding in prisoners on hunger strike. She has published in national and international outlets on e.g. the life-term prison sentence, complaint and appeal procedures for prisoners, rehabilitation of foreign IS-fighters and the international human rights norms for prisons (such as e.g. laid down in the European Prison Rules and developed by the ECtHR and the CPT).
Over the last years, Pauline Jacobs has been involved as a senior researcher in an EU-financed research into the use of alternatives to pre-trial detention ('DETOUR, towards pre-trial detention as ultima ratio') and an EU-financed research project on pre-trial rights for remand prisoners within the EU ('pre-trail rights for remand prisoners'). In 2020, she was awarded a research fund to conduct pioneering research on the legal position and treatment of transgender prisoners in the Netherlands.

Pauline Jacobs is a member of the Dutch Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (‘Raad voor Strafrechtstoepassing en Jeugdbescherming’), department administration of justice, which deals with complaints by prisoners in last instance. She is also a member of the board of the Association for Penitentiary Law and Penology ('Vereniging voor Penitentiair Recht en Penologie'), a member of the editorial board of the knowledge center for supervisory committees ('Kenniscentrum Commissie van Toezicht') and a member of the expert pool of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.

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