6. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Unknown author

141 citations0/0 files storedMartinus Nijhoff Publishers eBooks

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Criminal Justice and Penology Criminal Law and Policy International Law and Human Rights

Abstract

Human rights law protects the rights and freedoms of individuals and groups within societies. Police officials are uniquely placed to ensure respect for, and secure protection of, those rights and freedoms. Those who exercise power on behalf of the people they serve need to be aware of the human rights standards they are required to meet, and the best practice in their fields of activity. The texts identified as essential for the police in this publication serve as a valuable aid to meeting both of these needs. In a democracy governed by the rule of law, good policing is crucially dependent upon compliance with the standards they embody. Furthermore, these standards, which protect human rights and set out good professional practice for police, lie at the core of democratic policing. Essential Texts on Human Rights for the Police is divided into three parts, each one with an introduction outlining the scope and contents of the instruments. Part I includes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and universal treaties, Part II regional treaties and Part III non-treaty instruments. In all, 36 international instruments are reproduced. The present publication is intended to be used in human rights education and training programmes for police and other officials exercising police powers. It can be used by teachers and resource persons as a principal source of reference for such programmes or as a supplement to teaching manuals. It can also serve as a source of reference and guidance to operational police officials and to anyone wishing to be aware of the standards to which police should adhere. This second, revised edition of Essential Texts on Human Rights for the Police is more comprehensive than the first and includes 14 treaties and non-treaty instruments not reproduced in the previous edition of the book. It is a companion volume to Essential Cases on Human Rights for the Police: Reviews and Summaries of International Cases, by the same authors.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 141 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2007The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal 2011Imprisonment and women's health: concerns about gender sensitivity, human rights and public health 2017Sexual Rights as Human Rights: A Guide for the WAS Declaration of Sexual Rights 2008‘Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked’: Therapeutic jurisprudence and international human rights law as applied to prisoners and detainees by forensic psychologists 2011A Concise Overview of Penology and Penal Practice in Slovenia 2002Jaggers in the pokey: understanding tattooing in prisons and reacting rationally to it 2018Our Prisons Punitive or Rehabilitative? An Analysis of Theory and Practice 2015Life Long Learning: The Prison Library as a Bridge to Participation

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.