Adnan Sattar

Criminal Punishment and Human Rights: Convenient Morality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifications of punishment in domestic penal systems, as well as exposing certain paradoxes between human rights law and the aims of criminal punishment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781138625792
• ISBN-10: 1138625795
• Artikelnr.: 56240909

Autorenporträt

Adnan Sattar is an independent legal and social policy consultant.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Table of Conventions, Treaties and International Instruments
Table of National Legislation
Table of Cases
Introduction
1. The Crime of Punishment: Reassessing Classical Penal Theory
2. The Gods that Failed: Positivist Criminology and the Legacy of the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission
3. Retributivism in the Age of Human Rights
4. Punishment and the Origins of International Human Rights Law: An Uncensored Account
5. The Untold Story of the Howard League's Campaign for an International Prisoners' Convention
6. The Great Force of History: Development of the Global Human Rights Regime
7. The Evolution and Interpretation of Human Rights Norms and Penal Aims: A New Standard of Civilization?
Conclusion
Bibliography