RT Book
T1 Crime, Justice and Human Rights
A1 Weber, Leanne 1957-
A2 Fishwick, Elaine
A2 Marmo, Marinella 1973-
LA English
PP London
PB Macmillan Education UK
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1774205491
AB A specialized introduction to the philosophy, law and politics of human rights, uniquely tailored to criminologists and criminal justice practitioners. Exploring the connections between existing criminological scholarship and human rights frameworks, the book helps readers to incorporate human rights paradigms into their criminological analysis.
AB Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- About this Book -- Section 1 Understanding Human Rights -- 1 The Origins and Idea of Human Rights -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What are human rights? -- 1.3 The philosophical foundations of human rights -- 1.4 Some criticisms of human rights -- 1.5 Core human rights concepts -- 1.6 Conclusion -- 2 International Human Rights Law -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The UN and international human rights treaties -- 2.3 Monitoring and enforcing human rights -- 2.4 Human rights law beyond the UN -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Human Rights and Civil Society -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Human rights in a social context -- 3.3 Building human rights cultures? -- 3.4 The role of NGOs -- 3.5 Indifference and denial -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Collective Rights and Discrimination -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 From individual to group rights -- 4.3 Applying collective rights in criminology and criminal justice -- 4.4 The many faces of discrimination -- 4.5 Discrimination in crime prevention and criminal justice -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 Integrating Criminology and Human Rights -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Reviewing the criminological record -- 5.3 Human rights, globalization and human suffering -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Section 2 Applying Human Rights in Criminology -- 6 Criminal Law -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Human rights in domestic criminal law -- 6.3 Shield/sword binary function of human rights -- 6.4 Counter-terrorism and supreme emergency exception -- 6.5 State crime, criminal law and human rights -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7 Crime Prevention -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Understanding crime prevention -- 7.3 Crime prevention by the UN and Europe -- 7.4 From prevention to pre-emption: surveillance, security and risk -- 7.5 Preventing violence against women -- 7.6 Justice reinvestment.
OP 263
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
CN 364
SN 9781137299215
K1 Human Rights
K1 Electronic books
K1 Australien : Strafrechtspflege : Kriminologie : Menschenrecht