Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 593 g
Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 593 g
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1306-8
Verlag: Jai Press Inc.
Over the past decades, human rights have gained an increasing significance in law, politics and society, at the national and the international level. According to Louis Henkin, human rights have become the paradigm of our time, thereby displacing previous paradigms such as religion and socialism.
The criminal justice system has not been immune to the rise of human rights over time. Considerable attention is paid to the rules of due process for suspects and offenders, during criminal proceedings and in situations of detention. In recent years, the rights of victims have gained more weight in the criminal justice system, also in international tribunals and courts.
Moreover, the principles and norms of human rights have received wide attention in conceptualizing crime and delinquency. Some crimes, e.g. trafficking in human beings or violence against women and children, are defined in terms of human rights violations. The same is true with gross and systematic human rights violations, such as genocide and crimes against humanity.
This volume wishes to address these major developments in a systematic way, from the perspective of criminology and sociology. In the first part, we look at several types of crimes, old and new, from the angle of human rights and human rights violations. The second part sketches the influence of the human rights paradigm on the criminal justice system in North America and Europe. The last part addresses a number of cross-cutting issues relating to crime and human rights.
The volume is addressed to students and researchers in criminology and criminal justice studies, and to professionals and policy-makers in the criminal justice system, primarily but not exclusively in North America and Europe.
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CRIME AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Editors: Stephan Parmentier & Elmar Weitekamp
Introduction
Stephan Parmentier and Elmar Weitekamp
Part I: Crime and Human Rights
1. Human Rights in Europe and the Americas: regional protection systems and the process of regional integration
Kai Ambos and Nils Meyer-Abich
2. Trafficking in Humans and Human Rights
Hans-Jörg Albrecht
3. Youth, Crime and Human Rights
Dieter Burssens and Lode Walgrave
4. Racism and Xenophobia: the prevention of bias crimes in Germany, results from a nationwide task group
Marc Coester and Dieter Rössner
5. Political Crimes and Serious Violations of Human Rights: towards a criminology of international crimes
Stephan Parmentier and Elmar Weitekamp
Part II: Human Rights and Justice
6. Human Rights and Police Discretion: justice served or denied?
Jack Greene
7. Restorative Justice and Human Rights
Ann Skelton
8. The Zwelethemba Model: practicing human rights through dispute resolution
Jan Froestad and Clifford Shearing
9. Justice and Human Rights for Aboriginal Peoples in Saskatchewan: mapping the road ahead
Jim Mulvale
10. Criminology, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
Chris Cunneen
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