The European Human Rights System and the Right to Life Seen through Suicide Prevention in Places of Detention: Between Risk Management and Punishment

Cliquennois, Gaëtan; Snacken, Sonja; van Zyl Smit, Dirk

doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngab023

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The European Human Rights System and the Right to Life Seen through Suicide Prevention in Places of Detention: Between Risk Management and Punishment

Published in Human Rights Law Review • Sep 8, 2021

Authors:

Gaëtan Cliquennois

Sonja Snacken

Dirk van Zyl Smit

Abstract

Abstract This paper analyses the shortcomings of European suicide prevention policy in places of detention, a topic that has been neglected in the European legal literature. Four interrelated characteristics of the suicide prevention policies developed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a...

Subject

Punishment (psychology)

Human rights

Criminology

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