Justice and legal issues
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Justice and legal issues
(The international library of essays on capital punishment / series editor, Peter Hodgkinson, v. 1)
Ashgate, c2013
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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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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