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Life Imprisonment - A Global Human Rights Analysis (Hardcover)
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Life Imprisonment - A Global Human Rights Analysis (Hardcover)
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Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most
common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a
consequence, it has become the leading issue in international
criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners
serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue
for a human rights-based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh
punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people
face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions
both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely
for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment. Life
Imprisonment explores this trend through systematic data collection
and legal analysis, persuasively illustrated by detailed maps,
charts, tables, and comprehensive statistical appendices. The
central question-can life sentences be just?-is straightforward,
but the answer is complicated by the vast range of penal practices
that fall under the umbrella of life imprisonment. Van Zyl Smit and
Appleton contend that life imprisonment without possibility of
parole can never be just. While they have some sympathy for the
jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, they conclude
that life imprisonment, in many of the ways it is implemented
worldwide, infringes on the requirements of justice. They also
examine the outliers-states that have no life imprisonment-to
highlight the possibility of abolishing life sentences entirely.
Life Imprisonment is an incomparable resource for lawyers,
lawmakers, criminologists, policy scholars, and penal-reform
advocates concerned with balancing justice and public safety.
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