Hood CBE QC (Hon) DCL FBA / Hoyle | The Death Penalty | Buch | 978-0-19-922846-1 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 911 g

Hood CBE QC (Hon) DCL FBA / Hoyle

The Death Penalty

A Worldwide Perspective
4th edition
ISBN: 978-0-19-922846-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

A Worldwide Perspective

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 911 g

ISBN: 978-0-19-922846-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press


The 4th edition of this authoritative study, now written jointly with Carolyn Hoyle, brings up-to-date developments in the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide. It draws on Roger Hood's experience as consultant to the United Nations for the UN Secretary General's five-yearly surveys of capital punishment and on the latest information from a wide range non-governmental organizations and the academic literature.

Not only have more countries abolished capital punishment, but amongst those that continue to retain it, the majority have been carrying out fewer executions. Legal challenges to mandatory capital punishment have been successful, as has the movement to abolish the death penalty for those who commit a capital crime when under the age of 18. This edition has more to say about the prospects that China will restrict and control the number of executions 'on the road to abolition'.

Yet, despite such advances, this book reveals many human rights abuses where the death penalty still exists. In some countries a wide range of crimes are still subject to capital punishment, and the authorities often fail to meet the safeguards embodied in international human rights treaties to safeguard those facing the death penalty. There is evidence of police abuse, unfair trials, lack of access to competent defence counsel, excessive periods of time spent in horrible conditions on 'death
row', and public, painful forms of execution.

The authors engage with the latest debates on the realities of capital punishment, especially its justification as a uniquely effective deterrent; whether it can ever be administered equitably, without discrimination or error, and what influence relatives of victims should have in sentencing and public debate. For the first time it also discusses the problem of devising an alternative to capital punishment; especially, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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Scholars, students, human rights practitioners, and policy-makers interested in capital punishment, human rights, and criminal justice

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Carolyn Hoyle, D.Phil, is a Fellow of Green College and Reader in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.

Roger Hood, CBE, QC(Hon),PhD, DCL, FBA is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College and Professor Emeritus of Criminology, University of Oxford. He is a member of the British Foreign Secretary's Death Penalty Panel.


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