This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures hu...Loe edasi...
This book explains how the course of abolitionism, and the strategies and tactics of the anti-death penalty movement, have been shaped and influenced by the history of slavery and abolition....Loe edasi...
Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding of the relationships between ways of governance, the role of leadership and the death penalty practices. The book covers practice...Loe edasi...
The death penalty is embodied in Indian law, yet there is very little known about the people who are on death row except for media reports on them. In order to explore the way the prisoners on death row experience and perceive their lives and make m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199685776)
This volume explores the continued use of capital punishment in Asia and the reasons behind its retention. Various contributions offer insights into the politics, practice and public opinion of Asian capital punishment...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Dec-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199642182)
Taking a fresh look at a central controversy in criminal law theory, The Ethics of Capital Punishment presents a rationale for the death penalty grounded in a theory of the nature of evil and the nature of defilement. Original, unsettling, and deepl...Loe edasi...
Presents an analyses of the nature of capital punishment and provides perspectives on the larger issues of our approach to law-breakers and their rehabilitation. This title includes the claims of both those who want to retain capital punishment and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2009, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199544554)
Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Burials of deviants show clear development in this period, moving from locally determined practice in the pre-Christian era, to formal...Loe edasi...
This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis...Loe edasi...
This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors....Loe edasi...
