Justice and legal issues

Author(s)

• Hodgkinson, Peter, director of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies

Bibliographic Information

Justice and legal issues

edited by Peter Hodgkinson

（The international library of essays on capital punishment / series editor, Peter Hodgkinson, v. 1）

Ashgate, c2013

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional legal approach and propose fresh perspectives, including a unique critique of the abolition sector. Written by a range of leading experts with diverse geographical, methodological and conceptual approaches, the essays in this volume challenge received wisdom and embrace a holistic understanding of capital punishment based on practical experience and empirical data. This collection is indispensable reading for anyone seeking a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the complexity of the death penalty discourse.

Table of Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Legal Issues: Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor and the mandatory death penalty for drug offences in Singapore: a dead end for constitutional challenge?, Yvonne McDermott
• The limits of international law: efforts to enforce rulings of the International Court of Justice in US death penalty cases, Sandra Babcock
• The mandatory death penalty - an international an comparative perspective, Douglas L. Mendes
• Fair trial rights and their relation to the death penalty in Africa, Lilian Chenwi
• The right to life and the abolition of the death penalty in the Council of Europe, Jon Yorke
• The people decide: the effect of the introduction of the quasi-jury system (saiban-in seido) on the death penalty in Japan, Leah Ambler
• Waiting to die, dying to live, an account of the death row phenomenon from a legal viewpoint, Caycie D. Bradford
• The United Nations and the abolition of the death penalty, William A. Schabas
• Life and death in the lawyer's office: the internship in capital punishment studies, Andy Boon and Peter Hodgkinson
• The penalty of life imprisonment under international criminal law, Esther Gumboh
• Death penalty mitigation: a challenge for social work education, Joyce G. Reed and Glenn E. Rohrer
• The global capital punishment litigation landscape, Kerry Ann Akers. Part II Innocence: The myth of factual innocence, Morris B.Hoffmann
• The role of the innocence argument in contemporary death penalty debates, Michael L. Radelet. Part III Race and Religious Discrimination: South Africa: racism and the death penalty, Greg Wallance
• Racism, wrongful convictions and the death penalty, Hugo Adam Bedau. Part IV Gender and Sexuality Issues: A nation at war with itself: the potential impact of Uganda's anti-homosexuality Bill, Barrie Sander
• Chivalry is not dead: murder, gender and the death penalty, Steven F. Shatz and Naomi R. Shatz
• Zina (adultery) under Islamic law in Nigeria: the gender issues in Amina Lawal's case, Aminu Adamu Bello. Part V Juveniles: End natural life sentences for juveniles, Jeffrey Fagan
• Juvenile parricide offenders sentenced to death, Kathleen M. Heide and Jessica McCurdy. Part VI Victim Issues: Trauma therapy for death row families, Walter C. Long
• Contesting the victim card: closure discourse and emotion in death penalty rhetoric, Nancy Berns
• Capital punishment: creating more victims?, Peter Hodgkinson, Seema Kandelia and Rupa Reddy
• Name index.

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Details

• NCID: BB14296074
• ISBN:
  • 9781409461357
• LCCN: 2013943929
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Farnham
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 523 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 364.66
  • DC : 343.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Capital punishment
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB14296019