Death Penalty : A Worldwide Perspective

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Roger.

Contributor:

Hoyle, Carolyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Other Title:

death penalty

Place of Publication:

: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 4th edition of this authoritative study, now written jointly with Carolyn Hoyle, brings up-to-date developments in the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide. It draws on Roger Hood's experience as consultant to the United Nations for the UN Secretary General's five-yearly surveys of capital punishment and on the latest information from a wide range non-governmental organizations and the academic literature.Not only have more countries abolished capital punishment, but amongst those that continue to retain it, the majority have been carrying out fewer executions. Legal challenges

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Sources of Information; 2. Plan of the Book; 3. The Approach Taken towards Capital Punishment; 1. The Abolitionist Movement: Progress and Prospects; 1. The Pace of Abolition; 2. Generating the New Wave of Abolition; 3. What Prospects for International Acceptance or Rejection of Capital Punishment?; 2. In the Vanguard of Abolition; 1. Western Europe and Australasia: Death Penalty Free Zones; 2. Eastern Europe: Embracing Abolition; 3. States of the Former Soviet Union: From Moratoria to Abolition De Jure

4. South and Central America: Long-term Supporters of Abolition3. Where Capital Punishment Remains Contested; 1. The Middle East and North Africa: Cracks in the Bastion?; 2. Africa South of the Sahara: Resistance to Abolition Crumbling?; 3. Asia and the Pacific: Opening up the Issue; 4. The Caribbean: Colonial Legacies; 5. North America: Faltering Support; 4. The Scope of Capital Punishment in Law; 1. Offences Punishable By Death; 2. The Scale of Death Sentences and Executions; 5. The Death Penalty in Reality: The Process of Execution and the Death Row Experience

1. Executing those found to be Guilty2. Under Sentence of Death; 3. Conclusion; 6. Excluding the Vulnerable from Capital Punishment; 1. Juvenile Defendants; 2. The Question of the Aged; 3. The Exemption of Pregnant Women; 4. The Status of the Mentally Retarded; 5. Protection of the Insane and Severely Mentally Ill; 6. Conclusion; 7. Protecting the Accused and Ensuring Due Process; 1. International Standards; 2. Ensuring a Fair Trial; 3. The Right to Appeal; 4. The Right to Seek a Pardon, Clemency, or Commutation of Sentence; 5. Finality of Judgment: Awaiting the Outcome of Legal Proceedings

6. Wrongful Convictions and Innocent Persons Exonerated7. Conclusions; 8. Deciding Who Should Die: Problems of Inequity, Arbitrariness, and Racial Discrimination; 1. Mandatory or Discretionary?; 2. Legal Analyses: The American Experience; 3. Criminological Investigations; 4. Policy Implications; 9. The Question of Deterrence; 1. Reliance on the Deterrent Justification; 2. Conceptual Issues: The Need for Clarification; 3. General Deterrence in Context; 4. Assessing Homicide Trends; 5. The Comparative Method; 6. Measuring the Immediate Impact; 7. The Econometric Model

8. Methodological Problems in Measuring the Deterrent Effect9. Implications for Policy; 10. A Question of Opinion or a Question of Principle?; 1. Public Opinion and the Politics of Abolition; 2. The Nature of Public Opinion; 3. Changing Public Opinion; 4. Abolition and its Effect on Public Opinion; 5. The Impact of Victims' Advocates on Support for the Death Penalty; 6. A Question of Principle; 11. The Challenge of a Suitable Replacement; 1. The Nature of the Challenge; 2. The Range of Alternative Penalties; 3. The Ascendancy of Life Without Parole in America

4. Life Without Hope: The New Challenge to Human Dignity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-155177-5