Balancing Liberty and Security: Human Rights, Human Wrongs

ISBN-13: 9780230230293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 251 str.

Kate Moss

Opis

Examining the erosion of people's democratic rights and the potential catastrophic dangers of neglecting civil liberties, this bookexplores the endemic danger of the enlarged power of the state and the central role of Government in undermining personal freedoms through the use of state force in the name of the protection of security."

Recenzje

"Balancing Liberty and Security finds an important place in (the still few) works that have expressed concern about the silence of academics on the abuse of State power. This forthright evaluation of the risk society raises an articulate voice over externally or self-imposed silence of the academy on insidious deployment of State power ostensibly for public good. It is an accessible and welcome critical contribution to the discourse on civil rights and the monstrosity that is increasingly becoming the main face of State power even in the West with its claims on liberal democracy, rule of law and human rights. It is a must read for students and researchers of human rights, security studies and criminology and politics." - Hakeen O. Yusuf, The Howard Journal 53(3)

Spis treści

Foreword; M.Mansfield Acknowledgements  Liberty versus Security Historical and Contemporary Deviations from Essential Civil Liberties  The Context of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998  Article 3 and Torture  Article 5 and Detention without Trial  Article 6 and Extraordinary Rendition  Securing Rights – But Which? References Index

O autorze

KATE MOSS is Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Law, Social Science and Communications at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for Crime Reduction Initiatives and has also published Security and Liberty.