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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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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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Children in Conflict with the Law: The Rights-Based Framework
Throughout recent decades, a large body of children’s rights standards has been developed, setting a clear benchmark for the protection of children’s...
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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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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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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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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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Yanyuwa Law
This chapter provides the contextual background for a case study of Yanyuwa Law and how this Law relates to the ownership of Country. Indigenous Law...
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Policing “Landscapes” for the Rule of Law and Public Protection: the State of Evidence on Organisational Policies, Structures, and Human Resources
Research QuestionWhat evidence is, or is not, available on organisational policies, structures, and practices in national policing institutional...
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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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Child Trafficking, Children’s Rights, and Modern Slavery: International Law in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
This chapter follows the preceding chapter, focusing upon the international legal regulatory framework implemented to address human rights, slavery,...
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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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French Prison Officers’ Legal Socialisation: ‘The Law, Yes, Prisoners’ Rights, No’
Since the 1990s, French prison staff, and notably prison officers, have been confronted with the slow but significant evolution of prisoners’ 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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Criminal Law Categories as Ideological Constructs: The Case of Human Trafficking
Box’s argument that ‘criminal law categories are ideological constructs’ (Box, Power, crime and mystification, Tavistock, London, 1983, 7) opens up...
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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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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...