The Role of Human Rights in Long-Term Sentencing – Marieke Liem and Jan Maarten Elbers

Title: The Role of Human Rights in Long-Term Sentencing
Author: Marieke Liem and Jan Maarten Elbers

The Role of Human Rights in Long-Term Sentencing [Liem and Elbers]

Abstract

In recent decades, the number of long-term detainees held worldwide has increased significantly. Academics and policy makers have begun to challenge the widespread use and effectiveness of such severe sentences, however. This article aims to shed light on the role of human rights in imposing and executing long-term custodial sentences. There appears to be tension between ensuring that human rights are respected and provision of security through the incapacitation of offenders. This tension can only be understood properly in the context of contemporary risk-management associated with increased punitiveness.

Keywords

imprisonment – long-term sentencing – human rights – risk-management

Metadata

Title: The Role of Human Rights in Long-Term Sentencing
Author: Marieke Liem and Jan Maarten Elbers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02602010
Language: English
Year: 2015
Volume: 26
Issue: 2–4
Pages: 281–293
In: Security and Human Rights
E-ISSN: 1875-0230