Life Imprisonment : : A Global Human Rights Analysis /

Life Imprisonment : : A Global Human Rights Analysis / / Dirk Van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton.

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 right...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Van Zyl Smit, Dirk,
Appleton, Catherine,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (428 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Debating Life
  • 2. Describing Life
  • 3. Prevalence of Life
  • 4. Exempt from Life
  • 5. Offenses That Carry Life
  • 6. Imposing Life
  • 7. Doing Life
  • 8. Implementing Life Well
  • 9. Release from Life
  • 10. Life after Life
  • 11. Rethinking Life
  • Appendix A: Formal Sentences of Life Imprisonment
  • Appendix B: Numbers of Life-Sentenced Prisoners
  • Appendix C: Persons Serving Formal Life Sentences by Offense
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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