Life imprisonment: a global human rights analysis
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. 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. 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. 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 just?...is straightforward, but the answer is complicated by the vast range of penal practices that fall under the umbrella of life imprisonment. Van Zyl Smit and Appleton contend that life imprisonment without possibility of parole can never be just. While they have some sympathy for the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, they conclude that life imprisonment, in many of the ways it is implemented worldwide, infringes on the requirements of justice. They also examine the outliers...states that have no life imprisonment...to highlight the possibility of abolishing life sentences entirely. Life Imprisonment is an incomparable resource for lawyers, lawmakers, criminologists, policy scholars, and penal-reform advocates concerned with balancing justice and public safety.... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 447 Seiten Diagramme |
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/ VAN ZYL SMIT, DIRKYYEAUTHOR
: 2018
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
DEBATING LIFE
DESCRIBING LIFE
PREVALENCE OF LIFE
EXEMPT FROM LIFE
OFFENSES THAT CARRY LIFE
IMPOSING LIFE
DOING LIFE
IMPLEMENTING LIFE WELL
RELEASE FROM LIFE
LIFE AFTER LIFE
RETHINKING LIFE
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT HAS REPLACED
CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT AS THE MOST COMMON SEN
TENCE
IMPOSED FOR HEINOUS CRIMES WORLDWIDE. AS
A
CONSEQUENCE,
IT HAS
BECOME
THE LEADING ISSUE IN
INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE REFORM. 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
EXCEPTION
ALLY
HARSH PUNISHMENT. 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 SENTENC
ES MORE FREELY FOR CRIMES THAT WOULD NEVER HAVE
ATTRACTED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
LIFE
IMPRISONMENT
EXPLORES THIS TREND THROUGHSYSTEMATIC DATA COLLEC
TION
AND LEGAL ANALYSIS, PERSUASIVELY ILLUSTRATED BY
DETAILED MAPS, CHARTS, TABLES, AND COMPREHENSIVE
STATISTICAL
APPENDICES.
THE
CENTRAL QUESTION*CAN LIFE SENTENCES BE
JUST?*IS
STRAIGHTFORWARD, BUT THE ANSWER IS COM
PLICATED BY THE VAST RANGE OF PENAL PRACTICES THAT
FALL
UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF
LIFE
IMPRISONMENT.
VAN
ZYL SMIT AND APPLETON CONTEND THAT LIFE
IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE CAN
NEVER BE JUST. WHILE THEY HAVE
SOME
SYMPATHY
FOR THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF
HUMAN
RIGHTS, THEY CONCLUDE THAT LIFE
IMPRIS
ONMENT, IN MANY OF THE WAYS IT IS IMPLEMENTED
WORLDWIDE, INFRINGES ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF
JUSTICE.
THEY ALSO EXAMINE THE OUTLIERS*STATES
THAT HAVE NO LIFE IMPRISONMENT*TO HIGHLIGHT THE
POSSIBILITY OF ABOLISHING LIFE SENTENCES ENTIRELY.
LIFE
IMPRISONMENT IS AN INCOMPARABLE RESOURCE
FOR LAWYERS, LAWMAKERS, CRIMINOLOGISTS, POLICY
SCHOLARS, AND PENAL-REFORM
ADVOCATES
CONCERNED
WITH
BALANCING JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY.
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