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Crime and human rights[electronic re...
Parmentier, Stephan, (1960-)

 

  • Crime and human rights[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 364 22
    Title/Author: Crime and human rights/ edited by Stephan Parmentier and Elmar G.M. Weitekamp.
    other author: Parmentier, Stephan,
    Published: Amsterdam ; : Elsevier/JAI,, 2007.
    Description: 1 online resource (viii, 275 p.) : : ill.
    Subject: Crime - Sociological aspects.
    Subject: Human rights.
    Subject: Criminals - Civil rights.
    Subject: Criminal justice, Administration of.
    Subject: Crime & criminology.
    Subject: Social Science - Criminology.
    Subject: Political Science - Political Freedom & Security
    ISBN: 9780857240569 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0857240560 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780762313068 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 0762313064 (hbk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    [NT 15000229]: 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 rightshave become the paradigm of our time, thereby displacing previous paradigms such asreligion and socialism. The criminal justice system has not been immune to this rapid rise of humanrights. 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 istrue 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 criminologyand sociology, by way of original contributions. In the first part, welook at several typesof 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 tostudents 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.
    Online resource: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1521-6136/9
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