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Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia
. Ed(S): Hood, Roger, Qc (Hon) Dcl Fba, Roger; Deva, Surya
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Description for Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia
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 Editor(s): Hood, Roger, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger; Deva, Surya. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; JFMC; JKVP; JPVH; LNFX1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 664.
With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty. This is in recognition that it is a violation of the right to life and the right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. There has, simultaneously, been pressure on countries that still retain capital punishment to ensure that they at least apply the United Nations minimum human rights safeguards established to protect the rights of those facing the death penalty. This book shows that the majority of ... Read more
With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty. This is in recognition that it is a violation of the right to life and the right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. There has, simultaneously, been pressure on countries that still retain capital punishment to ensure that they at least apply the United Nations minimum human rights safeguards established to protect the rights of those facing the death penalty. This book shows that the majority of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199685776
SKU
V9780199685776
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About . Ed(S): Hood, Roger, Qc (Hon) Dcl Fba, Roger; Deva, Surya
Roger Hood is a Research Associate, formerly Professor of Criminology and Fellow of All Souls College, and former Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, All Souls College. He received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in ... Read more
Reviews for Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia
To what extent does popular support for discontinuation of the death penalty have to be presented for abolitionist laws to be legitimate? Do changes in public attitudes toward the death penalty necessarily precede abolition, or do cultural shifts occur later as a by-product of bold legal or political reforms? In raising these and other questions, this volume not only adds ... Read more