Criminal punishment and human rights : convenient morality /: convenient morality. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adnan Sattar.
• Authors: Sattar, Adnan
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 345.077; Punishment; Human rights; Punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects; Criminal law -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429861475; 9780429861482; 9780429861468; 9780429459696
• Related ISBNs: 9781138625792
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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