Dignity, Degrading Treatment and Torture in Human Rights Law: The Ends of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law) - 9781138856639

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Additional sources -- Table of cases -- 1. Introduction -- Why 'degrading treatment'? -- The approach of the book -- The structure of the book -- References -- 2. Degrading treatment within Article 3 -- The category of degrading treatment -- Relative assessment of a minimum level of severity -- The inherent scope for evolution -- An absolute right -- The obligations of states under Article 3 -- Degrading treatment: interpretation in context -- References -- 3. Framing the conceptual boundaries of degrading treatment -- The epistemological dimension - foundations of legal meaning -- The judicial dimension - justifying legal meanings -- The formative dimension - developing the parameters of legal meaning -- Chapter summary -- References -- 4. Understanding the benchmarks of degradation -- Feelings of fear, anguish and inferiority -- Humiliation and debasement -- Breaking of physical or moral resistance -- Being driven to act against will or conscience -- Adverse effect on personality -- Chapter summary -- References -- 5. The meaning of 'treatment' -- Treatment's ordinary meaning -- Treatment in Article 3 case-law -- Treatment as social experience -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. The ends of Article 3: the protection of human dignity and the limits of state responsibility -- Socio-economic deprivation and active individual 'choice' -- Degrading treatment? -- From state obligations to state responsibility? -- Chapter summary -- References -- 7. From degrading treatment to torture, cruel and inhuman treatment -- Torture -- Cruel and inhuman treatment -- Chapter summary -- References -- 8. Conclusion -- Index

• | Author: Elaine Webster
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 149 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138856630
• | ISBN-13: 9781138856639