Dignity, Degrading Treatment and Torture in Human Rights Law - The Ends of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights

This book explores and evaluates the interpretive scope of the prohibition of degrading treatment in order to provide analytical tools to advance the application of the right not to be subjected to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment in international, regional and domestic human rights law.

List of contents

Preface and acknowledgements
Additional sources
Tables of cases
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 DEGRADING TREATMENT WITHIN ARTICLE 3
Chapter 3 FRAMING THE CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES OF DEGRADING TREATMENT
Chapter 4 UNDERSTANDING THE BENCHMARKS OF DEGRADATION
Chapter 5 THE MEANING OF 'TREATMENT'
Chapter 6 THE ENDS OF ARTICLE 3: THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND THE LIMITS OF STATE RESPONSIBILITY
Chapter 7 FROM DEGRADING TREATMENT TO TORTURE, CRUEL AND INHUMAN TREATMENT
Chapter 8 CONCLUSION
Index

About the author

Elaine Webster is a lecturer in law at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Summary

This book explores and evaluates the interpretive scope of the prohibition of degrading treatment in order to provide analytical tools to advance the application of the right not to be subjected to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment in international, regional and domestic human rights law.

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Webster, Elaine (University of Strathclyde Webster, Webster Elaine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780367894290
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89429-0
• No. of pages: 149
• Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Sociology, Human Rights, LAW / General, LAW / Court Rules, LAW / Civil Rights, social and political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law