Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 30 No. 1, 2015.
Original scientific paper
Human Dignity: Protected, but also Jeopardised by Criminal Law?
Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi
; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law, University Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract
The paper explores the notion of human dignity in law in general and in criminal law in particular, it examines whether human dignity is a legal interest protected by criminal law (e.g., in cases of criminalisation of reproductive cloning and acts of racism), and it reflects upon how criminal law may jeopardise the human dignity of perpetrators, particularly in cases of penalisation of drug use and police entrapment.
Keywords
human dignity; criminal law; criminal repression; abuse of biomedicine; drug use; law and morals; reproductive cloning; racism; police entrapment
Hrčak ID:
162956
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Publication date:
27.8.2015.
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