Degrading Treatment

Degrading treatment in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of degrading treatment.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Policeman
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• degrading treatment in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• degrading treatment in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Degrading Treatment Or Punishment

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Degrading Treatment Or Punishment : Treatment that arouses in the victim a feeling or fear, anguish, and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing the victim and possibly breaking his physical or moral resistance. The prohibition on degrading treatment or punishment as set out in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights is now part of UK law as a consequence of the *Human Rights Act 1998. This right is an *absolute right; such treatment can never be justified as being in the public interest, no matter how great that public interest might be. Public authorities have a limited but positive duty to protect this right from interference by third parties.