Life Imprisonment - A Global Human Rights Analysis Van Zyl Smit DirkPevná vazba
Life Imprisonment - A Global Human Rights Analysis Van Zyl Smit DirkPevná vazba Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. In…
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Life Imprisonment - A Global Human Rights Analysis Van Zyl Smit DirkPevná vazba
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights-based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform.
Life Imprisonment explores this trend through systematic data collection and legal analysis, persuasively illustrated by detailed maps, charts, tables, and comprehensive statistical appendices.The central question--can life sentences be The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment.