Toward an abolitionist human rights court : rethinking responses to gendered and racialized violence / Karen Engle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engle, Karen, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in international law and society 3050-2896

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International human rights courts.

International law and human rights.

Women--Violence against--Law and legislation.

Women.

Race discrimination--Law and legislation.

Race discrimination.

Abolitionists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Contemporary international human rights law increasingly obligates states to heighten their criminalization of certain human rights violations, including gendered, racialized, and homophobic violence. This Element uses prison and police abolitionist thought to challenge this trend. It focuses on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that the Court's reliance on punishment and policing threatens to undo earlier European approaches to criminal law and human rights that resonate with abolitionist thought. It also contends that the criminalization approach provides the Court with an alibi for not recognizing or attending to the deeply structural racialized, colonial, sexual, gendered, and homophobic violence in Europe, particularly but not only against Roma communities and Black and Muslim migrants. Encouraging human rights advocates and judges to take seriously prison and police abolition in Europe and elsewhere, the Element calls for the ECtHR to pave the way for an abolitionist-oriented turn among human rights courts.

Contents:

Human Rights and Abolitionist Movements : Resonances and Dissonances

ECtHR Jurisprudence on Gendered and Racialized Violence

Sketching the Contours of an Abolitionist Human Rights Court.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 May 2025).

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ISBN:

1-009-69014-0

1-009-69016-7

1-009-69015-9

OCLC:

1574123907