Human rights for victims of non-state crime : taking victims seriously? /

Human rights for victims of non-state crime : taking victims seriously? /

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Author / Creator:Wergens, Anna. author.
Imprint:Oisterwijk, The Netherlands : Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP), ©2014.
Description:527 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Victims of crimes -- Civil rights -- Europe.
International law and human rights.
International law and human rights.
Victims of crimes -- Civil rights.
Europe.
Format: Dissertations E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10165002
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ISBN:9789462401853 (paperback)
9462401853 (paperback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-527).
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abstract
  • Table of acronyms
  • Case law of the European Court of Human Rights
  • Chapter 1. A Study on Victims and Their Rights
  • 1.1. Background
  • 1.1.1. The problem
  • 1.2. The aim of the study
  • 1.2.1. The research questions
  • 1.2.1.1. What is the legal significance of human rights for victims of non-state crime?
  • 1.2.1.2. Can the rights of crime victims be considered to be a human right?
  • 1.2.1.3. What is the resonance of human rights on crime victims at national level?
  • 1.2.2. Why is this an important issue?
  • 1.3. The starting-points
  • 1.3.1. The proliferation of rights
  • 1.3.2. Victims' rights and the human rights of victims
  • 1.3.3. The victim from two perspectives
  • 1.4. The dimensions of the research questions
  • 1.4.1. Horizontal relationships in human rights law and state responsibility
  • 1.4.2. Correspondence
  • 1.4.3. Universality versus particularism
  • 1.4.4. Normativity
  • 1.4.5. Justice
  • 1.5. A change of discourse - crime victims as a matter of human rights?
  • 1.6. Previous research
  • 1.7. Delimitations and terminology
  • 1.8. Theoretical and methodological concerns
  • 1.8.1. Introduction on methodology
  • 1.8.2. Theoretical approaches
  • 1.8.2.1. The victimological approach
  • 1.8.2.2. Human rights as a theoretical framework
  • 1.9. The structure of the thesis
  • Chapter 2. Victims' Rights
  • 2.1. The Background
  • 2.1.1. Introduction
  • 2.1.2. The development of international victims' rights
  • 2.1.3. The conceptualization of victims' rights
  • 2.1.4. The justification of international victims' rights instruments
  • 2.1.5. The needs of crime victims
  • 2.1.6. Victims' rights in victimology
  • 2.1.7. The core victims' rights
  • 2.1.8. The character of victims' rights
  • 2.1.9. Implementation of victims' rights instruments
  • 2.1.10. Reflections
  • 2.2. The normative basis of victims' rights
  • 2.2.1. Human Rights Instruments
  • 2.2.1.1. Binding and general human rights instruments
  • 2.2.1.2. Binding and specialized human rights instruments
  • 2.2.1.3. Non-binding general human rights instruments
  • 2.2.1.4. Non-binding specialized human rights instruments
  • 2.2.2. Victims' Rights Instruments
  • 2.2.2.1. Binding and general victims' rights instruments
  • 2.2.2.2. Binding and specialised victims' rights instruments
  • 2.2.2.3. Non-binding general victims' rights instruments
  • 2.2.2.4. Non-binding specialized victims' rights instruments
  • 2.3. Victims' rights and the human rights of victims-some reflections
  • Chapter 3. Human Rights
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. An historical review of the human rights
  • 3.2.1. Antiquity and the middle-ages
  • 3.2.2. The Enlightenment
  • 3.2.3. The nineteenth century
  • 3.2.4. The modern human rights movement
  • 3.3. The nature of human rights
  • 3.3.1. Introduction
  • 3.3.2. The rights-concept
  • 3.3.3. Basic elements of human rights
  • 3.3.3.1. Rights-holders and duty-bearers
  • 3.3.3.2. The scope of human rights
  • 3.3.3.3. The importance argument
  • 3.4. Classifying human rights
  • 3.4.1. Introduction
  • 3.4.2. Three generations of rights
  • 3.4.3. Individual rights and group rights
  • 3.4.4. The dual role of human rights
  • 3.4.5. The hierarchy of rights
  • 3.4.6. Human rights and state sovereignty
  • 3.5. Human Rights Principles
  • 3.5.1. Human Dignity
  • 3.5.2. Inalienability, indivisibility and interdependence
  • 3.5.3. Universality
  • 3.5.4. Equality and non-discrimination
  • 3.5.4.1. Introduction
  • 3.5.4.2. The right to a fair trial
  • 3.5.4.3. Equality of arms
  • 3.5.4.4. Equality before the law
  • 3.5.4.5. Access to justice
  • 3.6. Justifications of Human Rights
  • 3.6.1. The need for justifications
  • 3.6.2. Pragmatic justifications
  • 3.6.3. Justifications based on the human nature
  • 3.7. Reflections
  • 3.7.1. Victims in the history of human rights
  • 3.7.2. Victims' rights and justifications of human rights
  • Chapter 4. A New Paradigm
  • 4.1. The role of the non-state actor in human rights law
  • 4.1.1. Introduction
  • 4.1.2. The distinction between public and private
  • 4.2. Women and human rights
  • 4.2.1. The Women's Rights Movement
  • 4.2.2. Violence against women
  • 4.2.3. The normative development
  • 4.2.4. Violence against women as a matter of non-discrimination
  • 4.2.5. Towards a paradigm shift
  • 4.3. The character of human rights
  • 4.3.1. Introduction
  • 4.3.2. Human rights obligations
  • 4.3.3. Positive obligations
  • 4.3.4. The Due Diligence Standard
  • 4.3.4.1. Introduction
  • 4.3.4.2. The normative basis
  • 4.3.4.3. Prosecution and Punishment
  • 4.4. The concept of state responsibility
  • 4.4.1. Introduction
  • 4.4.2. State responsibility and human rights
  • 4.4.3. The Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
  • 4.4.4. Three elements of state responsibility
  • 4.4.5. The consequences of breaching international human rights
  • 4.4.6. Concluding observations
  • Chapter 5. The Common Denominators
  • 5.1. Introduction - two fundamental notions
  • 5.2. The right to protection
  • 5.2.1. The right to protection in human rights law
  • 5.2.2. Protection in victims' rights standards
  • 5.3. The right to a remedy
  • 5.3.1. The right to a remedy in human rights law
  • 5.3.2. The normative basis
  • 5.3.3. The scope of the right to remedies
  • 5.3.4. Remedies at different levels
  • 5.4. Crime victims and remedies
  • 5.4.1. Introduction
  • 5.4.2. Remedies for victims of non-state crime?
  • 5.4.3. Victims' rights as a specific form of remedy
  • 5.5. Introduction Case law of the European Court of Human Rights
  • 5.5.1. The right to life
  • 5.5.1.1. The substantive aspect of the right to life
  • 5.5.1.2. The procedural aspect of the right to life
  • 5.5.2. The right not to be subjected to torture and ill-treatment
  • 5.5.2.1. The substantive aspect of the right not to be subjected to torture and ill treatment
  • 5.5.2.2. The procedural aspect of the right not to be subjected to torture
  • 5.5.3. The right to private life
  • 5.5.3.1. The substantive aspect of the right to private life
  • 5.5.3.2. The procedural aspect of the right to private life
  • 5.5.4. The prohibition of slavery
  • 5.5.4.1. The substantive aspect of the prohibition of slavery
  • 5.5.4.2. The procedural aspect of the prohibition of slavery
  • 5.5.5. Violation of the prohibition of discrimination
  • 5.5.5.1. Discrimination based on sex
  • 5.5.5.2. Ethnic discrimination
  • 5.5.6. The right to a fair trial
  • 5.5.6.1. The general aspect of fair trial
  • 5.5.6.2. The right to have access to a court
  • 5.5.6.3. The right to proceedings in reasonable time
  • 5.5.6.4. The right to examine witnesses
  • 5.5.6.5. Public trials
  • 5.5.7. The right to remedies
  • 5.5.7.1. The duty to investigate crime as a remedy
  • 5.5.8. Conclusions on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights
  • 5.5.8.1. Introduction
  • 5.5.8.2. A focus on criminal law
  • 5.5.8.3. The severity of violations
  • 5.5.8.4. The victim at the heart of the golden rule
  • 5.5.8.5. Individual rights or protection of public interests?
  • 5.5.8.6. Vulnerability in focus
  • 5.5.8.7. Protection of victims' rights under the Convention
  • 5.5.8.8. In sum
  • Chapter 6. Sweden
  • 6.1. The background
  • 6.1.1. Introduction
  • 6.1.2. A contextual backdrop to the Swedish approach
  • 6.1.3. The relationship between international and national law
  • 6.1.4. The Constitution
  • 6.1.5. The status of the European Convention for Human Rights
  • 6.1.6. Protection of human rights in Sweden
  • 6.2. Policy-making on victims
  • 6.2.1. Towards a victim-oriented legislation
  • 6.2.2. A specific direction of victim policies; the treatment of victims
  • 6.2.3. The treatment direction - some reflections
  • 6.3. Victims' rights in Sweden
  • 6.3.1. Introduction
  • 6.3.2. Victims' rights in Swedish policy-making
  • 6.3.3. The crime victim in the framework of human rights
  • 6.3.4. Taking rights seriously? Victims' rights and the human rights of victims in Swedish policies - some reflections
  • 6.4. The child victim in Sweden
  • 6.4.1. Policies on children
  • 6.4.2. Legislation specific to the child victim
  • 6.4.3. The specific problem of lengthy proceedings
  • 6.4.4. Protection of child victims in practice
  • 6.4.5. Justice delayed is justice denied - some reflections
  • 6.4.6. Human rights protection of child victims - some reflections
  • 6.5. Remedies for child victims
  • 6.5.1. Introduction
  • 6.5.2. The rights of victims in Sweden
  • 6.5.2.1. The right to respect
  • 6.5.2.2. The right to information
  • 6.5.2.3. The right to support and assistance
  • 6.5.2.4. The right to compensation
  • 6.5.3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • 6.5.3.1. Reflections on the Status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • 6.5.4. The Children's Ombudsman
  • 6.5.4.1. Reflections on the Children's Ombudsman
  • 6.5.5. Compensation for violations of human rights
  • 6.6. Final Conclusions
  • Chapter 7. Victims and Human Rights - An Appraisal
  • 7.1. Victims and human rights principles
  • 7.1.1. The principle of equality
  • 7.1.1.1. Introduction
  • 7.1.1.2. Equality in human rights law
  • 7.1.1.3. The civil and political rights approach
  • 7.1.1.4. The access to justice paradigm
  • 7.1.1.5. Access to justice as a basis for the discourse on victims' and human rights
  • 7.1.2. The principle of human dignity
  • 7.1.2.1. Dignity as a justification for new rights
  • 7.1.2.2. Primary victimization as a violation of human dignity
  • 7.1.2.3. Secondary victimization as a violation of human dignity
  • 7.1.2.4. Dignity in case law
  • 7.1.2.5. Conclusions about human dignity
  • 7.1.3. The principle of indivisibility
  • 7.2. Normativity - victims' rights in the brave new world of international law
  • 7.2.1. The legal status of victims' rights
  • 7.2.2. Human rights protection of victims
  • 7.2.3. Reflections - normativity of victims' rights - in the eye of the beholder?
  • 7.3. Assessing victims' rights in the human rights framework
  • 7.3.1. The background
  • 7.3.2. A framework for assessing victims' rights as new rights
  • 7.3.2.1. Victims' rights as new rights
  • 7.3.3. Victims' rights as group rights
  • 7.4. The process towards recognition of new rights
  • 7.5. Comparing victims of crime with other rights-claimants
  • 7.5.1. Introduction
  • 7.5.2. The rights of disabled persons
  • 7.5.3. Rights of the disabled - old or new rights?
  • 7.5.3.1. Revising Megrét - victims' rights from a different angle
  • 7.5.3.2. Victims' rights - affirming the human rights?
  • 7.5.3.3. Reformulating the human rights in the context of victimisation
  • 7.5.3.4. Extending the human rights to match the situation of crime victims
  • 7.5.3.5. The innovation of victims' rights
  • 7.5.3.6. Conclusions
  • 7.6. Making rights effective
  • 76.1. Introduction
  • 7.6.2. Justiciability of rights
  • 7.6.3. Accountability for obligations set victims' rights standards
  • 7.7. The rights-based approach
  • 7.7.1. Introduction
  • 7.7.2. A rights-based approach for victims of non-state crime
  • 7.7.3. The essence; victims as rights-bearers
  • 7.7.4. Back to basics?
  • 7.7.5. The practical implications of the rights-based approach
  • 7.8. The prospect for human rights protection of victims
  • 7.8.1. Normative strengthening and supranational jurisdiction
  • 7.8.2. The indivisibility of human rights
  • 7.8.3. The interpretation of the European Convention of Human Rights
  • 7.8.4. The evolutive interpretation
  • 7.8.5. Autonomous concepts
  • 7.8.6. The integrated approach
  • 7.8.7. Conclusions with respect to the European Convention
  • 7.8.8. An outlook from the perspective of rights-proliferation
  • Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. The justifications revisited
  • 8.3. The course towards inclusion
  • 8.4. Victims' rights and the human rights of victims - towards convergence
  • 8.5. What is the legal significance of human rights to victims?
  • 8.5.1. Accountability
  • 8.5.2. An holistic view of victim protection
  • 8.5.3. The remedial perspective
  • 8.5.4. Victims of crime in international human rights case law
  • 8.5.5. The discrimination dilemma and access to justice
  • 8.5.6. The rights-based approach
  • 8.5.7. The potential of human rights to victims
  • 8.6. Can the rights of crime victims be considered as human rights?
  • 8.6.1. Victims' rights as implied rights
  • 8.6.2. Reflections
  • 8.7. Final observations
  • References
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