Criminal Punishment and Human Rights: Convenient Morality - Convenient Morality

List of contents

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

About the author

Adnan Sattar is an independent legal and social policy consultant.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Adnan Sattar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367660468
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66046-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Human Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / International, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Civil Rights, Penology and punishment, Human rights, civil rights, Penology & punishment, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law