Is Punishment the Appropriate Response to Gross Human Rights Violations? Is a Non-punitive Justice System Feasible?
- Posted on
- In Publications, Research
- by EZZAT A. FATTAH
This conference paper discusses the faulty premises underlying theories of punitive justice, and highlights the problems caused by the use of punitive justice as a means of dealing with various kinds of human rights violations. The paper puts forward a series of arguments in favour of using restorative justice to manage human rights abuses.
fatahreport
Post Views: 11
EZZAT A. FATTAH
Ezzat A. Fattah, PhD is the founder of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where he is professor emeritus.
- This author does not have any more posts.