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Crime and Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Crime and Human Rights (Hardcover)
Series: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
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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 the American scholar 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 this rapid rise of
human rights. In the past two decades, considerable attention has
been 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 now 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, by way of
original contributions. In the first part, we look at several types
of crimes, old and new, from the angle of human rights and human
rights violations, while the second part sketches the influence of
the human rights paradigm on some parts of the justice system in
North America, Europe and elsewhere. This volume is addressed to
students and researchers in criminology and criminal justice
studies, and to professionals and policy-makers in the criminal
justice system, primarilybut not exclusively in North America and
Europe.
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