Criminal Theory and International Human Rights Law.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Tables and figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Bringing the two fields together -- Defining the criminal offence -- The scope of international human rights law -- 2. An international human rights law approach -- Subjects and violations -- Applying international human rights law to criminalization -- Anote on human rights and human duties -- Summary -- 3. Rights in criminal theory -- Use of rights in criminal theory - Feinberg's welfare interest rights -- Challenges with welfare interest rights -- Rights, wrongfulness, and harm -- Further notions of rights - continental legal theory -- Summary -- 4. Crime and criminalization obligations in international human rights law -- The general security of person obligation -- The specific crime prevention obligation -- The general crime investigatory obligation -- Summary -- 5. Criminalization in human rights treaties -- Criminalization obligations in human rights treaties -- ICERD Article 4 -- CAT Article 4 -- OP-CRC-AC Article 4 and OP-CRC-SC Article 3 -- CPED Articles 4 and 25 -- Lessons from human rights treaty-based criminalization -- Summary -- 6. Criminalization in human rights cases -- Direct negative and positive criminalization cases -- Conviction cases -- Investigatory and procedural obligation cases -- Criminalization cases - acts and rights -- Criminalization cases - outcomes -- Summary -- 7. Reasoning in criminalization cases -- Societal interests -- Autonomy -- Harm and offense -- Community consensus -- Human dignity -- Other grounds of reasoning -- Criminal theory concepts -- ECHR structural principles -- Paternalism and vulnerability -- Links between grounds of reasoning -- Summary -- 8. Differences between criminal theory and an international human rights law approach.

Vertical and horizontal rights -- Dignity, vulnerability, and pluralism -- Multi-factorial reasoning -- The margin of appreciation -- Summary -- 9. The value of international human rights law for criminal theory -- Rethinking rights -- Balancing considerations -- Criminalization outcomes -- The role of consensus -- Summary -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Table of ECHR criminalization cases by crime classification, outcome, and reasoning -- Index.

Systematic examination of international decisions on acts engaging the criminal law reveals an emerging human rights approach to the acceptability, or not, of criminalization. This book provides an in-depth characterization of the reasoning and principles that underpin those decisions.

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