Forgiveness work : mercy, law, and victims' rights in Iran / Arzoo Osanloo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osanloo, Arzoo, 1968- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgiveness--Iran.

Forgiveness.

Pardon--Iran.

Pardon.

Victims--Legal status, laws, etc--Iran.

Victims.

Justice, Administration of--Iran.

Justice, Administration of.

Pardon (Islamic law)--Iran.

Pardon (Islamic law).

Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)--Iran.

Justice, Administration of (Islamic law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Iran's criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentences-according to Amnesty International, the country has the world's highest rate of capital punishment per capita. Less known to outside observers, however, is the Iranian criminal code's recognition of forgiveness, where victims of violent crimes, or the families of murder victims, can request the state to forgo punishing the criminal. This book shows that in the Iranian justice system, forbearance is as much a right of victims as retribution. Drawing on extended interviews and first-hand observations of more than eighty murder trials, the book explores why some families of victims forgive perpetrators and how a wide array of individuals contribute to the fraught business of negotiating reconciliation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Transliteration, dates, and names

1. Legal Foundations: Victims’ Rights and Retribution

2. Codifying Mercy: Judicial Reform, Affective Process, and Judge’s Knowledge

3. Seeking Reconciliation

4. Judicial Forbearance Advocacy: Motivations, Potentialities, and the Interstices of Time

5. Forgiveness Sanctioned: Affective Faith in Healing

6. Mediating Mercy:

7. The Art of Forgiveness

8. Cause Lawyers:

Epilogue. When Mercy Seasons Justice

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691201535

0691201536

OCLC:

1159403239