Life imprisonment and human rights / edited by Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Zyl Smit, Dirk, editor.

Appleton, Catherine, editor.

Series:

Oñati international series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life imprisonment.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 522 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Dirk van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton and Georgie Benford

The impact of life imprisonment on criminal justice reform in the United States / Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis

Life imprisonment in Latin America / Beatriz López Lorca

Life without parole in Australia : current practices, juveniles and retrospective sentencing / Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Life imprisonment and human rights in Uganda / Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

A new form of life imprisonment for India? / Madhurima Dhanuka

An administrative procedure for life prisoners : law and practice of royal pardon in the Netherlands / Wiene van Hattum and Sonja Meijer

Constitutionalizing life imprisonment without parole : the case of Hungary / Miklós Lévay

A right to hope? : life imprisonment in France / Marion Vannier

The paradox of reform : life imprisonment in England and Wales / Catherine Appleton and Dirk van Zyl Smit

Life imprisonment in Belgium : current human rights challenges / Sonja Snacken, Ineke Casier, Caroline Devynck and Diete Humblet

Confusingly compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights : the release of life sentence prisoners in Ireland / Diarmuid Griffin and Ian O'Donnell

Punishment in Portuguese criminal law : a penal system without life imprisonment / Inês Horta Pinto

The abolition of life imprisonment in Brazil and its contradictions / Giovanna Frisso

Long-term imprisonment in Latin America / Francisco Javier de León Villalba

Life and long-term imprisonment in the countries of the former Yugoslavia / Filip Vojta

The right to hope for lifers : an analysis of court judgments and practice in Poland / Maria Ejchart-Dubois, Maria Nielaczna and Aneta Wilkowska-Plóciennik

Long-term and life imprisonment in Spain : release procedures and terrorism / Jon-Mirena Landa Gorostiza

Constitutional limits on life imprisonment and post-sentence preventive detention in Germany / Axel Dessecker

Life without parole for preventive reasons : lifelong post-sentence detention in Switzerland / Anna Coninx

Life imprisonment and related institutions in the nordic countries / Tapio Lappi-Seppälä.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: Life imprisonment and human rights

ISBN:

9781509902224

1509902228

OCLC:

958205367

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.