Crime and human rights

• Other Authors: Parmentier, Stephan, 1960-, Weitekamp, Elmar G. M.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2007.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 9.
• Subjects: 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...