Crime Control as Human Rights Enforcement (From Public Policy, Crime, and Criminal Justice, Second Edition, P 396-403, 2000, Barry W. Hancock and Paul M. Sharp, eds. -- See NCJ-183970)

• NCJ Number: 183968
• Author(s): Robert Elias
• Date Published: 2000
• Length: 11 pages
• Sale Source: Prentice-Hall, Inc
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Collected Work
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Reprinted from Robert Elias, "Crime Control as Human Rights Enforcement," Criminology as Peacemaking, pp. 69-79, Indiana University Press.

Annotation

The author contends that most crime results from political, economic, and social injustices that government or society has failed to prevent and discusses crime control as human rights enforcement.

Abstract

Criminal victimization continues because conventional crime policies either ignore or misdiagnose crime causes. Alternative crime policies should address political, economic, and social conditions that induce crime across the spectrum of classes and races in American society. Inadequacies of political, economic, and social systems are noted. The link between crime and repression is examined, and human rights standards are addressed. The need for government officials to take human rights seriously and to protect them as the basis of crime control is emphasized. 82 references