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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appleton, Catherine, editor.

Van Zyl Smit, Dirk, editor.

Series:

Oñati international series in law and society.

Oñati international series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life imprisonment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (539 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human rights

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.

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ISBN:

9781509902217

150990221X

9781509902224

1509902228

OCLC:

958205367