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Human Dignity, Rights and Victim Participation in Criminal Justice
Human dignity is the cornerstone of human rights and central to the Treaty on European Union (EU) and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. It is...
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Engaging with Human Rights How Subnational Actors use Human Rights Treaties in Policy Processes
Making human rights a reality requires that various types of domestic actors take measures, which is often demanding, all the more so in federal...
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The Importance of Subnational Engagement with Human Rights Treaties
Making human rights a reality requires that various types of domestic actors take measures, which is very demanding, all the more so in federal...
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Towards a Contextualised Understanding of Human Rights Treaty Implementation
This chapter offers a synthesis of the arguments outlined in this book and discusses the main findings from the empirical study of the Swiss case. It...
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Sex Workers Rights Are Human Rights: Or not? The Art of Stealing Back Human Rights
Since the 1970s, sex workers across the world have used the human rights framework to claim legitimacy and advocate for civil and labour rights with...
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Police education and democratic policing in Taiwan: a longitudinal quasi-experimental study of the effects of selection and police socialisation on human rights, moral reasoning and prejudice
ObjectivesTo investigate the effects of selection and group socialisation on support of human rights, moral reasoning and prejudice in police...
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Human Rights and Football Policing
This chapter sets out the relevance and importance of human rights to football crowd policing and law. It argues that while rights and freedoms under...
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Designing Research for Studying How Subnational Actors Use International Human Rights Treaties
This book examines how subnational actors use international human rights treaties and how subnational political authorities, including subnational...
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The Different Ways in Which Subnational Political Authorities Engage with International Human Rights Treaties
Engagement with human rights treaties occurs when the political authorities of a subnational unit try to understand an international treaty and...
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Life Imprisonment in Viet Nam: Reflections on Reforms from a Human Rights Perspective
In Viet Nam, there is no comprehensive and in-depth research on life imprisonment from the perspective of human rights. By employing a human rights...
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Varieties of How Actors Use Human Rights Treaties in Subnational Policy Processes
In this chapter, we examine the varieties of how actors use international human rights treaties in policy processes at the subnational level. As...
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Human Rights
In order to understand how Human Rights impact policing, it is critical to have an understanding of the history of Human Rights. The two main...
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Security or Liberty? Human Rights and Protest
The right to peaceful protest is a deeply rooted tradition in the UK. Protected by Art. 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, it did not...
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Prisoners’ Rights
This chapter will explore: the history of punishment and loss of rights; international guidance and domestic legislation on prisoners’ rights; the...
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Bodies, Territories and Serious Violations of Human Rights in Mexico
This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and...
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Incorporating Human Rights in the Fight Against Police Sexual Violence in Malawi
The police in Malawi have been accused and, in some cases, convicted of various forms of sexual violence against women and girls. These cases, and...
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Strip Searches Through the Lens of the Prohibition of Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in European Human Rights Law
The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment, within Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, has been relevant to a wide range of...
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Unarmed Police: Myths, Rights and Realities
Ireland is oft held aloft as one of the few examples of a Western police service that is unarmed. In this chapter we examine the realities of gun use...
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Child First and Children’s Rights: An Opportunity to Advance Rights-Based Youth Justice
International children’s rights law provides a set of universal standards that aim to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of the child in conflict...
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Upholding Fundamental Rights in National Arrest Warrant Proceedings in Practice: a Need for Third Level of Judicial Protection?
The European Commission has repeatedly attempted to introduce EU legislation on pre-trial detention but has so far met with an overwhelming...