civil liberties and legal barriers

• civil liberties


  basic rights and freedoms granted to citizens of a country

  freedom of/from:

  speech

  movement

  arbitrary arrest

  assembly

  association

  religious worship
• civil liberties and legal barriers

  • can limit social control due to human rights
  • can restrict agents of social control
  • e.g UK cannot deport foreign nationals with criminal convictions due to them being in danger in their own country
  • countries have different legal systems/ regulations
  • links to marxism as they would argue laws/ rights protect wc from ruling elite making uncontrolled judgements against them
• abu qatada


  case study for civil liberties and legal barriers

  Abu was a radical islamic cleric-hate preacher

  2012 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Abu could not be deported to Jordan due to risk he would be tried by use of torture