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Positive Obligations And Criminal Justice: Duties To Protect Or Coerce?, Liora Lazarus
Positive Obligations And Criminal Justice: Duties To Protect Or Coerce?, Liora Lazarus
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This chapter explores the relationship between criminal law, criminal process and human rights from a slightly different perspective. It demonstrates that while human rights may well be used to limit the excesses of security and law and order politics, the nature of the relationship between human rights and criminal justice cannot be captured alone by the view of rights as a limit on the coercive reach of the criminal law and criminal justice institutions. Increasingly, human rights, cast as positive rights, have resulted in claims for the extension of the criminal law, the creation of preventative duties or ‘protective policing …