| Description |
1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Advances in criminology |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Governance and the Death Penalty; 1 The Death Penalty: A Hazard to a Sustainable Development of Criminal Justice?; 2 Death as Punishment; 3 Why the Death Penalty is Disappearing; Part II The USA; 4 The American Enlightenment: Eliminating Capital Punishment in the United States; 5 Clear and Ever-Present Dangers? Redefining 'Closure' in a Post 9-11 World; Part III Asia; 6 Why Does Japan Retain the Death Penalty? Nine Hypotheses |
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7 Death Penalty Moratorium in South Korea: Norms, Institutions and Leadership8 Why Taiwan's de facto Moratorium was Established and Lost; 9 The Norms of Death: On Attitudes to Capital Punishment in China; 10 A Knotty Tale: Understanding the Death Penalty in India; Part IV Countries with Majority Muslim Populations; 11 Islamic Visions for the Abolition of the Death Penalty; 12 An Overview of the Ongoing Debate on the Death Penalty in Morocco; 13 Abolition of the Death Penalty: Indonesia at a Crossroads; Part V Reflection and Outlook; 14 Criminal Justice, Sustainability and the Death Penalty |
| Summary |
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 in the USA and Asia as well as within Muslim majority countries, and questions whether the death penalty in and of itself is a hazard to a sustainable development of criminal justice. It is an invaluable resource for all those researching and campaigning for the global abolition of capital punishment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capital punishment.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Capital punishment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scherdin, Lill
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Ayatt, Mohammed
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| ISBN |
9781409457206 |
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1409457206 |
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9781472407504 |
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1472407504 |
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1306550076 |
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9781306550079 |
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9781409457190 |
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1409457192 |
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