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The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law and principles. This collection explores the interdisciplinary reach of criminology and is the first of its kind to link criminology and human rights.
This text is divided into six sections, each with an introduction and an overview provided by one of the editors. The opening section makes an assessment of the current standing of human rights within the discipline. Each of the remaining sections corresponds to a substantive area of harm prevention and social control which together make up the main core of contemporary criminology, namely:
criminal law in practice;
transitional justice, peacemaking and community safety;
policing in all its guises;
traditional and emerging approaches to criminal justice;
and penality, both within and beyond the prison.
This Handbook forms an authoritative foundation on which future teaching and research about human rights and criminology can be built. This multi-disciplinary text is an essential companion for criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars and political scientists.
List of contents
Introduction, Section I: Taking Stock of Human Rights within Criminology1. Turning to Human Rights: Criminology Past and Future 2. Criminological Issues and the UN: Key Issues and Trends 3. Thinking about Human Rights from within Criminology 4. The Africana Paradigm: W.E.B Du Bois as a Founding Father of Human Rights Criminology 5. Regarding Rights for the Other: Abolitionism and Human Rights from Below 6. Feminist Criminology and Human Rights 7. Victims: Needs, Rights and Justice 8. Governmentality Analytics and Human Rights in Criminology 9. Conceptualizing Human Rights in State - Corporate Crime Research 10. Criminology, Globalization and Human Rights Section II: Law, Regulation and Governance through a Human Rights Lens 11. The European Union, Criminal law and Human Rights 12. Digital Surveillance and Everyday Democracy 13. Anti-terrorism Laws and Human Rights 14. Death Investigation and Human Rights 15. Australian Border Policing, the Detention of Children and State Crime 16. Civil Society Perspectives on Corruption and Human Rights: The Case of Papua New Guinea 17. Human Rights and Multi-National Enterprises: A Criminological Analysis of Non-Judicial Mechanisms of Redress.../part contents
About the author
Leanne Weber is Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in Internal Border Policing at Monash University, Australia, and Co-Director of the Border Crossing Observatory.
Elaine Fishwick is an independent research consultant currently working on a project with Sydney University Social Justice Research Network, Australia.
Marinella Marmo is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Associate Dean (Research) at Flinders University Law School, Australia.
Summary
This book brings together work across a wide range of criminological perspectives united by its critical application of human rights law and principles and provides a foundation on which future research on human rights and criminology can be built.
