Justice, mercy, and caprice : clemency and the death penalty in Ireland / Ian O'Donnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Donnell, Ian, author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clemency--Ireland--History--20th century.

Clemency.

Capital punishment--Ireland--History--20th century.

Capital punishment.

History.

Ireland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 307 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Clarendon Studies in Criminology aims to provide a forum for outstanding empirical and theoretical work in all aspects of criminology and criminal justice, broadly understood. The Editors welcome submissions from established scholars, as well as excellent PhD work. The Series was inaugurated in 1994, with Roger Hood as its first General Editor, following discussions between Oxford University Press and three criminology centres. It is edited under the auspices of these three criminological centres: the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics, and the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. Each supplies members of the Editorial Board and, in turn, the Series Editor. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Classifying Clemency

3. For and Against Clemency

4. Juries and Judges

5. Extraordinary Courts

6. Governments

7. Blurring the Separation of Powers

8. Undoing Death I

9. Undoing Death II

10. Release

Postcript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.

ISBN:

0198798474

9780198798477

OCLC:

999406687