A Comparative Analysis Of Capital Punishment

Author : Rita James Simon,Dagny A. Blaskovich
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0739120913

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A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment by Rita James Simon,Dagny A. Blaskovich Pdf

A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public opinion data and empirical studies, Simon and Blaskovich's work compares, across societies, the offense types punishable by death, the level of public support for the death penalty, the forms the penalty takes, and the categories of persons exempt from punishment. It examines the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to violent offenses, especially homicide, the extent to which innocent persons have become the victims of capital punishment, and occurrences of state sponsored genocide and democide. This book is a practical and useful tool for public policy makers, criminal justice practitioners, students, and anyone who seeks to better understand the worldwide debate on this controversial social issue.

Author : Carol S. Steiker,Jordan M. Steiker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786433251

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Comparative Capital Punishment by Carol S. Steiker,Jordan M. Steiker Pdf

Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe. This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.

Author : Carsten Anckar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134315468

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Determinants of the Death Penalty by Carsten Anckar Pdf

This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors.

Author : Lill Scherdin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317169932

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Capital Punishment by Lill Scherdin Pdf

As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present. It also examines how international, transnational and national forces intersect in order to understand the possibilities of future death penalty abolition. The chapters cover the USA - the only western democracy that still uses the death penalty - and Asia - the site of some 90 per cent of all executions. Also included are discussions of the death penalty in Islam and its practice in selected Muslim majority countries. There is also a comparative chapter departing from the response to the mass killings in Norway in 2011. Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding of the relationships between ways of governance, the role of leadership and the death penalty practices. This book questions whether the death penalty in and of itself is a hazard to a sustainable development of criminal justice. It is an invaluable resource for all those researching and campaigning for the global abolition of capital punishment.

Author : Austin Sarat,Christian Boulanger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804767712

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The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment by Austin Sarat,Christian Boulanger Pdf

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits of the penal sphere. In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the "cultural lives"—past and present—of the state’s ultimate sanction. They undertake this “cultural voyage” comparatively—examining the dynamics of the death penalty in Mexico, the United States, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel, Palestine, Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea—arguing that we need to look beyond the United States to see how capital punishment “lives” or “dies” in the rest of the world, how images of state killing are produced and consumed elsewhere, and how they are reflected, back and forth, in the emerging international judicial and political discourse on the penalty of death and its abolition. Contributors: Sangmin Bae Christian Boulanger Julia Eckert Agata Fijalkowski Evi Girling Virgil K.Y. Ho David T. Johnson Botagoz Kassymbekova Shai Lavi Jürgen Martschukat Alfred Oehlers Judith Randle Judith Mendelsohn Rood Austin Sarat Patrick Timmons Nicole Tarulevicz Louise Tyler

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309254168

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Deterrence and the Death Penalty by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty Pdf

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.

Author : Terance D. Miethe,Hong Lu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052184407X

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Punishment by Terance D. Miethe,Hong Lu Pdf

This 2005 book examines punishment in different forms, including corporal and economic punishment.

Author : Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.,Austin Sarat
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814762240

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The Road to Abolition? by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.,Austin Sarat Pdf

At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not the death penalty will ever be abolished in America. The interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., and Austin Sarat ask and attempt to answer the hard questions that need to be addressed if the death penalty is to be abolished. Will the death penalty end only to be replaced with life in prison without parole? Will life without the possibility of parole become, in essence, the new death penalty? For abolitionists, might that be a pyrrhic victory? The contributors discuss how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the current debate over lethal injection as a case study on why and how the elimination of certain forms of execution might provide a model for the larger abolition of the death penalty.

Author : Motaz Alnaouq
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 372557796X

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The Right to Life in the Palestinian Society by Motaz Alnaouq Pdf

Author : David B. Chandler
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Law
ISBN : 0771097948

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Capital Punishment in Canada by David B. Chandler Pdf

Chandler has thoroughly researched the Canadian context of the recurring and often emotional discussion of capital punishment.

Author : Roger Hood,Carolyn Hoyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9780198701736

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The Death Penalty by Roger Hood,Carolyn Hoyle Pdf

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.

Author : Hugo Adam Bedau,Paul G. Cassell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0195179803

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Debating the Death Penalty by Hugo Adam Bedau,Paul G. Cassell Pdf

Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.

Author : David C. Baldus,George Woodworth,Charles A. Pulaski
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : 1555530567

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Equal Justice and the Death Penalty by David C. Baldus,George Woodworth,Charles A. Pulaski Pdf

Author : David T. Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030320867

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The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan by David T. Johnson Pdf

This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differences. These include differences in capital jurisprudence, execution method, the nature and extent of secrecy surrounding death penalty deliberations and executions, institutional capacities to prevent and discover wrongful convictions, orientations to lay participation and to victim participation, and orientations to “democracy” and governance. Johnson also explores several fundamental issues about the ultimate criminal penalty, such as the proper role of citizen preferences in governing a system of punishment and the relevance of the feelings of victims and survivors.

Author : Hong Lu,Terance D. Miethe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135914929

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China’s Death Penalty by Hong Lu,Terance D. Miethe Pdf

This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors' treatment of China's death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative, focusing on its theory and the actual practice.