Overview
- Explains the paradigm shift from a state-centred to a human-rights-based criminal justice system
- Offers a comprehensive overview of the rights of crime victims under European law
- Provides readers access to relevant case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
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This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim. To remedy this problem, the book calls for abandoning the concept of crime as an infringement of a state’s criminal laws and instead reinterpreting it as a violation of human rights. The state’s right to punish the offender would then be replaced by the rights of victims to see those responsible for violating their human rights convicted and punished and by the rights of offenders to be treated as accountable agents.
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Book Title: Justice for Victims of Crime
Book Subtitle: Human Dignity as the Foundation of Criminal Justice in Europe
Authors: Albin Dearing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45048-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45046-9Published: 13 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83196-1Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45048-3Published: 06 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 398
Topics: European Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Human Rights, International Criminal Law , Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History