Beyond Virtue and Vice: Rethinking Human Rights and Criminal Law

Over the past two decades, human rights as legal doctrine and practice has shifted its engagement with criminal law from a near exclusive condemnation of it as a source of harm toward increasingly invoking it as a necessary remedy for abuses. These shifts are most visible in the context of sexuality, reproduction, and gender. Criminal law appears in modern states as a tool for societies to define forbidden acts (crimes) and prescribe punishments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812251083
• ISBN13: 9780812251081
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.3"