Sentencing practice and reform has in recent years assumed a high political profile in many jurisdictions. Changing public attitudes about the relative seriousness of different offenses, evidence of inconsistent governmental concerns about the escalating costs of criminal justice, and support for a return to more traditional conceptions of justice in the wake of loss of faith in individualistic rehabilitative responses to offending, have all given sharper focus to the reformist agenda. This text brings together case-studies of legislative sentencing reform initiatives in the USA and Canada,...
Sentencing practice and reform has in recent years assumed a high political profile in many jurisdictions. Changing public attitudes about the relativ...
This pathbreaking documentary and empirical study considers in detail the work of the latest actor on the international stage attempting to prevent torture. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), established in 1989, represents a new phase in international human rights intervention. The authors, an international lawyer and a criminologist, bring their different analytical perspectives to bear on this innovative human rights mechanism.
This pathbreaking documentary and empirical study considers in detail the work of the latest actor on the international stage attempting to prevent to...
Protecting Prisoners examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet devised--those of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)---and relates them to those of other European and United Nations bodies. The book also examines the reaction of selected Council of Europe member states---Belgium, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom---to the application of those standards in CPT reports.
Protecting Prisoners examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet devised--those of the European Committee for the Preve...
Der Ausschuss zur Verhutung von Folter und unmenschlicher oder erniedrigender Behandlung oder Strafe ist einer der einflussreichsten Ausschusse des Europarates. Seit seiner Einsetzung im Jahre 1989 besuchen Spezialisten des Ausschusses Haftorte einschliesslich Polizeistationen, Justizvollzugsanstalten und psychiatrische Krankenhauser in ganz Europa zur Uberprufung der Behandlung der Haftlinge sowie der Haftbedingungen. Das Buch bietet einen beeindruckenden Einblick in die in der Offentlichkeit bislang wenig bekannte Arbeit des Ausschusses sowie eine aktuelle Zusammenstellung der von ihm...
Der Ausschuss zur Verhutung von Folter und unmenschlicher oder erniedrigender Behandlung oder Strafe ist einer der einflussreichsten Ausschusse des Eu...
