Life Imprisonment In Asia
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| Author | : Dirk van Zyl Smit |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2022-11-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9811946647 |
Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences. Yet, in Asia the phenomenon has never been studied systematically. Life Imprisonment in Asia fills this major gap. It brings together thirteen new essays on life imprisonment in key jurisdictions in the region. Each chapter consolidates what is known about the law and practice of life imprisonment in the jurisdiction and then explores aspects of the imposition or implementation of life sentences that the authors regard as particularly problematic. In some instances, the main issue is the imposition of life sentences by the courts and their relationship to the death penalty. In others, the focus is on the treatment of life sentenced prisoners. In many instances, the most prominent question is whether life sentenced prisoners should be released and, if so, according to what processes. In the overview chapter, the editors place the complex picture that emerges of life imprisonment in Asia in a global context and point to reforms urgently required to ensure that Asian life sentences meet international human rights standards. Life Imprisonment in Asia should be read by everyone who has an interest in just punishments for serious offences, not only in Asia, but throughout the world. It will be an invaluable tool for lawyers, criminologists, policy makers and penal reform advocates in the region and beyond.
| Author | : Dirk van Zyl Smit |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2019-01-14 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0674989112 |
Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue of international criminal justice reform. In the first survey of its kind, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this harsh punishment.
| Author | : Daniel Pascoe |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2019-03-19 |
| Genre | : Capital punishment |
| ISBN | : 0198809719 |
An analysis of the differences in clemency practice among the Southeast Asian jurisdictions in an inductive search for patterns that explain why some countries in the region make use of clemency far more often than do others.
| Author | : Roger Hood |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2013-11-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0191509000 |
With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty. This is in recognition that it is a violation of the right to life and the right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. There has, simultaneously, been pressure on countries that still retain capital punishment to ensure that they at least apply the United Nations minimum human rights safeguards established to protect the rights of those facing the death penalty. This book shows that the majority of Asian countries have been particularly resistant to the abolitionist movement and tardy in accepting their responsibility to uphold the safeguards. The essays contained in this volume provide an in-depth analysis of changes in the scope and application of the death penalty in Asia with a focus on China, India, Japan, and Singapore. They explain the extent to which these nations still fail to accept capital punishment as a human rights issue, identify impediments to reform, and explore the prospects that Asian countries will eventually embrace the goal of worldwide abolition of capital punishment.
| Author | : Dirk van Zyl Smit |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2016-12-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1509902228 |
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.
| Author | : Nancy Mullane |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2012-06-26 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1610390296 |
An award-winning journalist and producer of This American Life traces the stories of five convicted murderers to assess their struggles for redemption, efforts toward parole and first steps in transitioning back to civilian life. 25,000 first printing.
| Author | : Julia Buxton |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2020-11-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 183982882X |
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation on a previously overlooked demographic, this book argues that women are disproportionately affected by a flawed policy approach.
| Author | : Petra Schmidt |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9789004124219 |
This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.
| Author | : Frank Dikötter |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501721267 |
Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable result of globalization, Cultures of Confinement underlines the fact that the prison was never simply imposed by colonial powers or copied by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation that altered the social practices associated with confinement. The prison, in short, was understood in culturally specific ways and reinvented in a variety of local contexts examined here for the first time in global perspective.
| Author | : Joanna Weschler |
| Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781564321466 |
Describes five theories of substance abuse treatment and details how to translate each theory into actual practice. Material on 12-step, psychodynamic, behavioral, marital/family, and motivational approaches incorporates case examples, discussion of advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and treatment techniques. Includes a chapter on emerging pharmacological approaches. For advanced students in psychology, social work, and medicine, and for substance abuse counselors in training. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
