Protecting Prisoners - The Standards of European Committee for Prevention of Torture in

Zusatztext The two volumes represent the crowning achievement of a decade of exemplary practically-oriented scholarship by Professors Morgan and Evans... Protecting Prisoners is a well thought through and coherent volume. Informationen zum Autor Rod Morgan is Professor of Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Bristol. Klappentext Protecting Prisoners examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet devised--those of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)---and relates them to those of other European and United Nations bodies. The book also examines the reaction of selected Council of Europe member states---Belgium, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom---to the application of those standards in CPT reports. Zusammenfassung This important book examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet devised - those of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture - and relates them to those of other European and United Nations bodies. The book also examines the reaction of selected Council of Europe member states to the application of those standards in CPT reports. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Malcolm Evans and Rod Morgan: The CPT: An Introduction 2: Rod Morgan and Malcolm Evans: CPT Standards: An Overview 3: Wolfgang Peukert: The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights 4: Jim Murdoch: CPT Standards within the Context of the Council of Europe 5: Walter Suntinger: CPT and Other International Standards 6: Eric Prokosch: Amnesty International's 12-point Programme for the Prevention of Torture: An Example of NGO Standard Setting 7: Stephan Parmentier: The Validity and Impact of CPT Standards with Regard to Belgium 8: Roland Bank: The CPT in France 9: Agnes Kover: A Critical Review of the CPT's Visit to Hungary 10: Piet Van Reenan: Inspection and Quality Control: The CPT in The Netherlands 11: Semih Gemalmaz: The CPT and Turkey 12: Stephan Shaw: The CPT's Visits to the United Kingdom Appendices ...

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm D. Evans, Rod Morgan, Rod Evans Morgan, Morgan Rod
• Assisted by: Malcolm E Evans (Editor), Malcolm E. Evans (Editor), Rod Morgan (Editor), Rodney Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1999
• EAN: 9780198298212
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829821-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, EU (European Union), Penology and punishment, Human rights, civil rights, Penology & punishment, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general