ISBN:
9783642281402
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (IX, 274 p, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Fernández de Casadevante Romani, Carlos, 1956 - International law of victims
DDC:
341.48
Keywords:
Criminal Law
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Criminology
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Law
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Law
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Criminal Law
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Criminology
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Opferschutz
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Internationales Recht
;
Rechtsvergleich
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Opferschutz
;
Internationales Recht
;
Rechtsvergleich
Abstract:
After having ignored victims, only recently both domestic and international law have begun to pay attention to them. As a consequence, different international norms related to victims have progressively been introduced. These are norms generally characterized by a certain concept from the perspective of victims, as well as by the enumeration of a list of rights to which they are entitle to; rights upon which the international statute of victims is built. In reverse, these catalogues of rights are the states obligations. Most of these rights are already existent in the international law of human rights. Consequently, they are not new but consolidated rights. Others are strictly linked to victims, concerning the following categories: victims of crime, victims of abuse of power, victims of gross violations of international human rights law, victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law, victims of enforced disappearance, victims of violations of international criminal law and victims of terrorism.
Description / Table of Contents:
International Law of Victims; Contents; Part One: The Victims and International Law; Some Previous Questions; The Approach of International Law to Victims; The International Norms Related to Victims; International Norms of a General or Universal Scope: United Nations; International Norms of a Regional Scope; Europe: The Council of Europe and the European Union; America: The Organization of American States (OAS); References; The International Categories of Victims; The International Concept of Victim: Almost as Many Concepts of Victim as Categories of Victims
Description / Table of Contents:
The Different International Categories of VictimsVictims of Crime; The General or Universal System of United Nations; The European Regional System: The Council of Europe and the European Union; Victims of Abuse of Power; Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious; Violations of International Humanitarian Law; Victims of Violations of International Criminal Law; The International Criminal Court (ICC); The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda; Victims of Enforced Disappearance
Description / Table of Contents:
The General or Universal System of the United NationsThe American Regional System: The Organization of American States (OAS); Victims of Trafficking; Victims of Terrorism; References; Special Reference to the Victims of Terrorism; Victims of Terrorism and International Law: From Ignorance to Recognition; The Concept of Victim of Terrorism; A Previous Question: The Concept of Terrorism; The Concept of Terrorism in the Frame of United Nations; The Concept of Terrorism in the Frame of the European Union; The Concept of Terrorism in the Frame of Other Regional Systems
Description / Table of Contents:
Consequently, There Are Sufficient Elements to Build a Concept of TerrorismThe Lack of a Concept of ``Victim of Terrorism´´: Proposals; The Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime: an inadequate response for victims of terrorism; The Need for a Specific International Norm on the Victims of Terrorism; References; The Existence of Common Elements in the Different Definitions of Victim; References; Part Two: The Rights Recognized to Victims by International Norms
Description / Table of Contents:
A Previous Question: The Legal Nature of Victims´ RightsThe Legal Nature of Victims´ Rights; Criteria for Determining the Attitude of the State and the Legal Effects of the Institutional Norm; Characteristics of the Rights of Victims Recognized by International Norms; The Majority Are Rights Already in Force in International Law of Human Rights; They Are Also Rights Which Are Interpreted by International Bodies Under International Treaties of Human Rights; They Are Rights That Are Interrelated and That Have Links Between Each Other; References
Description / Table of Contents:
The Catalogue of Rights Afforded to Victims by International Norms
Note:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-28140-2
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