Abstract

HIKAL-CARREON, Wael Sarwat. Social prevention of crime through human rights: an ignored bond. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2011, vol.53, n.1, pp.261-274. ISSN 1794-3108.

This article displays in a simple manner the base ideas for crime prevention through promotion and development of human rights from individual guarantees. The trend of human rights in the criminological environment is mostly police- based and of a penitentiary nature. However, an important bond has been ignored: the link referring to the public policy dealing with social prevention of crime. Thus, some aspects such as how the State criminalizes its citizens and lead them astray, and how should it provide the necessary elements required for each person to achieve an individual development with social consequences. If this individual development is frustrated, individuals begin to stray from the society's objectives and face the old dilemma: we all are supposed to have human rights, but not all of us do actually enjoy them.

Keywords : Etiology of crime; crime prevention; criminology; politics; policy; society.

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