ABSTRACT
The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law and principles. This collection explores the interdisciplinary reach of criminology and is the first of its kind to link criminology and human rights.
This text is divided into six sections, each with an introduction and an overview provided by one of the editors. The opening section makes an assessment of the current standing of human rights within the discipline. Each of the remaining sections corresponds to a substantive area of harm prevention and social control which together make up the main core of contemporary criminology, namely:
- criminal law in practice;
- transitional justice, peacemaking and community safety;
- policing in all its guises;
- traditional and emerging approaches to criminal justice;
- and penality, both within and beyond the prison.
This Handbook forms an authoritative foundation on which future teaching and research about human rights and criminology can be built. This multi-disciplinary text is an essential companion for criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars and political scientists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|107 pages
Taking stock of human rights within criminology
chapter 4|10 pages
The Africana paradigm
part II|116 pages
Law, regulation and governance through a human rights lens
chapter 16|11 pages
Civil society perspectives on corruption and human rights
chapter 17|10 pages
Human rights and multinational enterprises
chapter 18|10 pages
The utility and futility of international standards for children in conflict with the law
part III|88 pages
Human rights in the promotion of peace, community safety and social justice
chapter 23|11 pages
The violence of war, the violence of peace
chapter 25|11 pages
Keeping the peace
chapter 26|11 pages
Criminalizing dissent
chapter 27|10 pages
The limits of migration-related human rights
part IV|97 pages
Policing and human rights
chapter 32|12 pages
Bent to good authorities?
chapter 35|11 pages
‘Like running on one leg’
part V|84 pages
Human rights and the justice process
chapter |11 pages
Survival, dignity and wellbeing
chapter 42|11 pages
China's criminal response to domestic violence against women
chapter 45|10 pages
Daiyou kangoku
part VI|79 pages
Human rights and penality