Perspective Chapter: Lifers before the European Court of Human Rights

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dc.abstract.enIn the chapter, we discuss the current policy of toughening sentences in Poland against the standards of dealing with prisoners, especially those sentenced to life imprisonment. However, the similar tendention is observed in other European countries. Policy regarding prisoner’s treatment should be related to human rights standards. Showing the universality of the international community’s approach as expressed in the recommendations of the Council of Europe gives a new contribution to the knowledge of the development of human rights even in relation to life prisoners. We present a unique study of 241 cases of life sentenced prisoners that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided between 1962 and 2019. This new knowledge concerns the following aspects: a statistical analysis of the problems that the complainants raised before the ECtHR and that, for the most part, constituted violations of the ECHR, the identification of specific problems due to the length of the sentence, the determination of whether the ECtHR applies a double standard due to the diversity of the respondent states, the evolution of the Court’s case law on the complaints of the life prisoners. It turns out that for lifers alone, the ECtHR ‘created’ two new rights.
dc.affiliationWydział Prawa w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Prawa
dc.contributor.authorNiełaczna, Maria
dc.contributor.authorDawidziuk, Ewa
dc.contributor.editorStamatakis, Nikolaos
dc.date.access2024-01-03
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-03T10:11:37Z
dc.date.available2024-01-03T10:11:37Z
dc.date.created2023-11-17
dc.date.issued2023-11-17
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.physical1-25
dc.description.versionfinal_author
dc.identifier.doi10.5772/intechopen.1003218
dc.identifier.eisbnbrak
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/284
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki prawne
dc.publisher.ministerialIntechOpen
dc.relation.bookGlobal Trends in Law Enforcement – Theory and Practice
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.monoOPEN_REPOSITORY
dc.subject.enlife sentence
dc.subject.enpenal policy
dc.subject.enEuropean court of human rights
dc.subject.enEuropean standards
dc.subject.enrehabilitation
dc.subject.enright to hope
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titlePerspective Chapter: Lifers before the European Court of Human Rights
dc.typeMonographyChapter
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