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The Death Penalty - A Worldwide Perspective (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition) Loot Price: R3,181
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The Death Penalty - A Worldwide Perspective (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition): Roger Hood, Carolyn Hoyle

The Death Penalty - A Worldwide Perspective (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition)

Roger Hood, Carolyn Hoyle

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The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasising the impact of international human rights principles and evidence of abuse, the authors examine how this has fuelled challenges to the death penalty and they analyse and appraise the likely obstacles, political and cultural, to further abolition. They discuss the cruel realities of the death penalty and the failure of international standards always to ensure fair trials and to avoid arbitrariness, discrimination and conviction of the innocent: all violations of the right to life. They provide further evidence of the lack of a general deterrent effect; shed new light on the influence and limits of public opinion; and argue that substituting for the death penalty life imprisonment without parole raises many similar human rights concerns. This edition provides a strong intellectual and evidential basis for regarding capital punishment as undeniably cruel, inhuman and degrading. Widely relied upon and fully updated to reflect the current state of affairs worldwide, this is an invaluable resource for all those who study the death penalty and work towards its removal as an international goal.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2015
Authors: Roger Hood (Professor Emeritus of Criminology) • Carolyn Hoyle (Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford and Fellow, Green Templeton College, Oxford)
Dimensions: 253 x 177 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 612
Edition: 5th Revised edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870173-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Capital punishment
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > Citizenship & nationality law > General
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LSN: 0-19-870173-X
Barcode: 9780198701736

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