Presenting the results of a world survey on the death penalty--its practice and the literature written about it--Hood here analyzes the law and practice of the death penalty in all nations in which it is used. He also reviews research data on the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime.

The Death Penalty: A World-wide Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Hood, Roger

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Presenting the results of a world survey on the death penalty--its practice and the literature written about it--Hood here analyzes the law and practice of the death penalty in all nations in which it is used. He also reviews research data on the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime.

The Death Penalty

In the six years which have elapsed since publication of the first edition many changes have taken place in respect of the death penalty; the number of countries which have abolished the death penalty has increased at an unprecedented rate although a few have re-introduced it; the range of offenses subject to the death penalty has contracted in many countries, but expanded in others; there are new facts to report on the number of executions carried out; much more is known about the extent to which states abide by the United Nation's Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty; and much has been published particularly in the United States of America on the legal, ethical and practical aspects of administering capital punishment and on public attitudes towards it. The time is therefore right for a new edition and in preparing it Dr Hood has thoroughly revised and updated the whole work.

Criminal Law

Since the publication of the first edition, many changes have taken place in respect of the death penalty. This edition discusses the number of countries which have abolished the death penalty; those who have re-introduced it; the range of offences subject to the death penalty; the number of executions carried out; the extent to which states abide by the United Nations' Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty; and the legal, ethical and practical aspects of administering capital punishment and public attitudes towards it.

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasizing the impact of international human rights principles and evidence of abuse, the authors examine how this has fueled challenges to the death penalty and they analyze and appraise the likely obstacles, political and cultural, to further abolition. They discuss the cruel realities of the death penalty and the failure of international standards always to ensure fair trials and to avoid arbitrariness, discrimination and conviction of the innocent: all violations of the right to life. They provide further evidence of the lack of a general deterrent effect; shed new light on the influence and limits of public opinion; and argue that substituting for the death penalty life imprisonment without parole raises many similar human rights concerns. This edition provides a strong intellectual and evidential basis for regarding capital punishment as undeniably cruel, inhuman and degrading. Widely relied upon and fully updated to reflect the current state of affairs worldwide, this is an invaluable resource for all those who study the death penalty and work towards its removal as an international goal.

Hoyle, Carolyn

This is the completely revised and updated third edition of Roger Hood's classic study on the death penalty. In it he surveys and analyses the status of the death penalty as a punishment worldwide, taking into account the changes that have taken place during the six years since the last edition was published. This new edition is especially valuable at a time when more and more countries are joining the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide.

Despite growing pressure for the death penalty's abolition, the year 2000 saw over 1000 people executed in China, some 123 in Saudi Arabia, 75 in Iran, and 85 in the United States of America (figures: Amnesty International). In this new edition of his classic study Roger Hood, the acknowledged world authority on death penalty legislation, assesses the global status of capital punishment at the start of the new millennium.The author explores the many changes that have taken place in the twelve years that have elapsed since the publication of the widely acclaimed first edition of The Death Penalty. The picture he reveals is a mixed one. The number of countries which have abolished the death penalty has increased at an unprecedented rate, although a few have subsequently re-introduced it. The range of offences subject to the death penalty has contracted in many countries, but expanded in others. There are new facts to report on the number of executions carried out: much more is known about the extent to which states abide by the United Nation's Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty; and much has been published, particularly in the United States of America on the legal, ethical and practical aspects of administering capital punishment and on public attitudes towards it. The time is therefore ripe for this new revised and updated edition.

Capital punishment has for many years now been the subject of controversy and moral debate. With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights there has been a movement to abolish this form of punishment or in the least, uphold the minimum international law standards aimed at protecting the rights of those facing capital punishment. This book identifies Asia as being particularly unaffected by these international pressures. The essays contained in this volume provide an analysis of changes in the scope and application of the death penalty in Asian countries, and explain in what ways they fail to meet these international law standards.

Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

Deva, Surya

Constitutional Law

A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750: Vol.5: The Emergence of Penal Policy

Radzinowicz, Sir Leon

Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd.

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The Death Penalty: A World-wide Perspective

The Death Penalty: A World-wide Perspective

The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750: Vol.5: The Emergence of Penal Policy