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Criminal punishment and human rights : convenient morality

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Routledge research in human rights lawPublication details: N.Y. Routledge 2019Description: xv, 269pISBN:
  • 9780367660468
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 343.24 SAT
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
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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

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