Crime and Human Rights (9) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0762313064 ISBN 13: 9780762313068

Casa editrice: Jai, 2007

Riassunto

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, primarily but not exclusively in North America and Europe.

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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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• Editore: Jai
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0762313064
• ISBN 13: 9780762313068
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 275
• Redattore: Parmentier Stephan, Weitekamp Emar G. M.