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Sentencing and Human Rights: The Limits on Punishment
Sentencing and Human Rights develops a systematic account of the importance of human rights principles at sentencing stage. It examines how principles of legality, proportionality, equality, and judicial responsibility may be expected to limit sentencing practices and suggests that the concept of state punishment needs to be reconsidered.
| Author(s) | By Sarah J Summers (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Universi ty of Zurich). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 304 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 4 Nov 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
Sentencing and Human Rights develops a systematic account of the importance of human rights principles at sentencing stage. It examines how principles of legality, proportionality, equality, and judicial responsibility may be expected to limit sentencing practices and suggests that the concept of state punishment needs to be reconsidered.
1: Sentencing and human rights 2: Legality 3: Proportionality 4: Equality and non-discrimination 5: Judicial imposition of punishment 6: The justification of punishment and human rights
Sarah J Summers is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Criminology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She studied law at the University of Glasgow and received her doctorate from the University of Zurich. She was previously a memb
