Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System

Anthony Amatrudo

ISBN 10: 0415688914 / ISBN 13: 9780415688918

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014

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Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LAM; LBBR; LNDC; LNFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428. . 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415688914
• ISBN 13: 9780415688918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

We now live in a world which thinks through the legislative implications of criminal justice with one eye on human rights. Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System provides comprehensive coverage of human rights as it relates to the contemporary criminal justice system. As well as being a significant aspect of international governance and global justice, Amatrudo and Blake argue here that human rights have also eclipsed the rhetoric of religion in contemporary moral discussion. This book explores topics such as terrorism, race, and the rights of prisoners, as well as existing legal structures, court practices, and the developing literature in Criminology, Law and Political Science, in order to critically review the relationship between the developing body of human rights theory and practice, and the criminal justice system.

This book will be of considerable interest to those with academic concerns in this area; as well as providing an accessible, yet sophisticated, resource for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate human rights courses.

About the Author

Anthony Amatrudo is currently Reader in Criminology at Middlesex University and a Visiting Fellow at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. He was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Nathanson Centre for Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto in 2012- 2013.

Leslie Blake is a lecturer in Law at the School of Law of the University of Surrey and a member of the Committee of Islington Legal Advice Centre, London. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1972.