Crime and human rights

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Parmentier, Stephan, 1960-, Weitekamp, Elmar G. M.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2007.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed.
• Σειρά: Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 9.
• Θέματα: Crime > Sociological aspects.; Human rights.; Criminals > Civil rights.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Crime & criminology.; Social Science > Criminology.; Political Science > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.

Over the past decades, human rights have gained an increasing significance in law, politics and society, at the national and the international level. According to the American scholar Louis Henkin, human rights have become the paradigm of our time, thereby displacing previous paradigms such as relig...