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Death Penalty
Death Penalty Mitigation
v pevné vazbě, 174 stran
vyd. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
XII/2014
ISBN 9781442232679
v pevné vazbě, 252 stran
vyd. Oxford University Press, X/2013
ISBN 9780195329469
běžná cena 892 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 730 Kč vč. DPH
běžná cena 1.453 Kč vč. DPH
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The United States is divided about the death penalty-17 states have banned it, while
the remaining states have not. From wrongful convictions to botched executions,
capital punishment is fraught with controversy. In The Death Penalty: What's Keeping
it Alive, award-winning criminal defense attorney Andrea Lyon turns a critical eye
towards the reasons why the death penalty remains active in most states, in spite of
well-documented flaws in the justice system.
The book opens with an overview of the history of the death penalty in America, then
digs into the reasons capital punishment is a fixture in the justice system of most
states. The author argues that religious and moral convictions play a role, as does
media coverage of crime and punishment. Politics, however, plays the biggest role,
according to the author, with no one wanting to look soft on crime.
The death penalty remains a deadly political tool in most of the United States.
This book provides an introduction to socio-legal forms of mitigation in capital sentencing.
It helps mitigation specialists, defense investigators, social scientists, and lawyers in
developing socio-cultural themes of mitigation. It examines scientific formulations,
concepts, and frameworks for structuring social history investigations and assessments of
moral culpability.
A fundamental aim of this handbook was to provide mitigation professionals not only with
an understanding of the context of mitigation in criminal justice thinking, but also ways of
contextualizing issues of blame and culpability. Cases are used to illustrate how to
identify, evaluate and present mitigation evidence in assessing issues of culpability in the
mitigation of punishment in death penalty cases. It also exposes mitigation professionals
to recent developments in the social sciences with implications for assessing issues of
practical rationality, diminished volition, unfortunate forms of socialization, criminal
propensities, socio-cultural deprivation, and gang involvement.
These topics are linked with legal and philosophical conceptions of moral culpability that
offer mitigation professionals new ways of thinking about both proximal and remote forms
of mitigation. These socially oriented lenses, used in examining these concepts and legal
issues, offer alternative ways of thinking about issues of capacity, choice and character in
assessing diminished forms of moral culpability. The book concludes with
recommendations for future research and other strategies for promoting the improvement
of practice in the field of capital mitigation.
Death Penalty: Constitutional Issues,
Commentaries, and Case Briefs
v měkké vazbě, 392 stran
vyd. Anderson Publishing, 3. vydání,
V/2014
ISBN 9781455776337
běžná cena 1.253 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 1.020 Kč vč. DPH
The Death Penalty, Third Edition, brings together all the legal issues related to the
death penalty and provides case briefs for the most important United States Supreme
Court death penalty cases. No other book available brings together a discussion of the
major constitutional issues surrounding the death penalty with a broad array of
associated case briefs. The authors classify cases according to legal issues and
provide a commentary on the various sub-topics, presenting legal materials in an
easily understood form.
Though the primary audiences of the book are undergraduates in criminal justice
programs and practitioners in the corrections and justice systems, the book will also
prove useful to anyone who has an interest in the death penalty, the criminal justice
system, or the United States Constitution. Every chapter starts with commentaries
regarding general case law in a sub-topic, such as aggravating and mitigating factors,
followed by a chart of the cases briefed in the chapter, and then the case briefs. These
case briefs acquaint the reader with Supreme Court cases by summarizing facts,
issues, reasons, and holdings.
The Death Penalty, Third Edition , is a succinct, trusted guide to the law of capital
punishment in the United States.
Death Penalty: Worldwide Perspective
v měkké vazbě, 624 stran
vyd. Oxford University Press, 5. vydání,
XII/2014
ISBN 9780198701743
běžná cena 1.613 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 1.320 Kč vč. DPH
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. Emphasising
the impact of international human rights principles and evidence of abuse, the authors
examine how this has fuelled challenges to the death penalty and they analyse 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.
Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy
Is Death Penalty Dying?
v pevné vazbě, 226 stran
vyd. Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, IX/2013
ISBN 9781442224346
v měkké vazbě, 342 stran
vyd. Cambridge University Press,
I/2014
ISBN 9781107634275
běžná cena 1.533 Kč vč. DPH
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běžná cena 972 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 790 Kč vč. DPH
This unique book examines how U.S. domestic policy regarding the death penalty has
been influenced by international pressures, in particular, by foreign nations and
international organizations. International pressure has mounted against America's use
of the death penalty, straining diplomatic ties.
U.S. policies that endorse the execution of juveniles, the mentally handicapped, and
disadvantaged foreign nationals have been recognized by allied nations and
international organizations as human rights abuses and violation of international law.
Further, organizations such as the United Nations and Amnesty International have
issued scathing reports revealing racial bias and fundamental procedural flaws in
almost every phase of the judicial process in capital cases.
International pressures directed at governmental entities, in particular specific states
such as Texas, can have a profound impact on governmental operational efficiency
and public opinion and effectively render capital punishment cost-prohibitive from a
public policy standpoint. The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy analyzes the
institutional response to specific forms of foreign intervention and influence such as
consular intervention, international litigation, and extradition negotiation.
This is documented through case studies such as how a judge in Texas v. Green
turned to a comparative Delaware case that relied on the Vienna Convention to
remove the death penalty as possible punishment, and how Mexico pressured the
White House in two separate cases. By demonstrating that foreign actors have done
much to constrain the United States to abandon its policies of executing foreigners, as
well as its own citizens, the book explores the foreign dimensions of the U.S.
Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political
conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of
World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the
United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment,
especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative
sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty
systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an
interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe.
Death Penalty in Africa
Death Penalty: Documents Decoded
This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital
punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of
abolition.
v pevné vazbě, 208 stran
vyd. Ashgate Publishing, VII/2014
ISBN 9781472415349
v pevné vazbě, 264 stran
vyd. ABC-CLIO, I/2014
ISBN 9781610691949
běžná cena 2.816 Kč vč. DPH
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běžná cena 2.014 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 1.650 Kč vč. DPH
Human development is not simply about wealth and economic well-being, it is also
dependent upon shared values that cherish the sanctity of human life. Using
comparative methods, archival research and quantitative findings, this book explores
the historical and cultural background of the death penalty in Africa, analysing the law
and practice of the death penalty under European and Asian laws in Africa before
independence. Showing progressive attitudes to punishment rooted in both traditional
and modern concepts of human dignity, Aime Muyoboke Karimunda assesses the
ground on which the death penalty is retained today.
Providing a full and balanced appraisal of the arguments, the book presents a clear
and compelling case for the total abolition of the death penalty throughout Africa.This
book is essential reading for human rights lawyers, legal anthropologists, historians,
political analysts and anyone else interested in promoting democracy and the
protection of fundamental human rights in Africa.
This book provides far more than an effective overview of the history, current status, and
future of capital punishment in America; it supplies excerpts of the words of the justices
themselves to make these judicial opinions readily accessible and understandable to
general audiences. As a result, readers can see what the justices had to say for
themselves regarding more than 30 important cases involving the death penalty-without
relying on any intermediary interpretations of their statements. After a brief historical
summary of the debate over capital punishment and the arguments favoring and
opposing capital punishment, the book "decodes" how the justices have interpreted and
applied constitutional provisions to historical and contemporary controversies.
Each case includes brief narrative commentaries inserted by the authors to provide
context for the justices' words. Additionally, the excerpted judicial opinions are presented
as primary source documents for the reader's inspection and reflection.
Exile and Embrace: Contemporary
Religious Discourse on Death Penalty
v měkké vazbě, 308 stran
vyd. Northeastern University Press,
VII/2013
ISBN 9781555538170
běžná cena 1.413 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 1.160 Kč vč. DPH
With passion and precision, Exile and Embrace examines the key elements of the
religious debates over capital punishment and shows how they reflect the values and
self-understandings of contemporary Americans. Santoro demonstrates that capital
punishment has relatively little to do with the perpetrators and much more to do with
those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he convincingly argues, we
should focus our attention not on the perpetrators and victims, as is typically the case
in debates pro and con about the death penalty, but on ourselves and on the
mechanisms that we use to impose or oppose the death penalty.
An important book that will appeal to those involved in the death penalty debate and to
general religious studies and American studies scholars, as well.
Politics of Death Penalty in Countries in
Transition
Determinants of Death Penalty
v měkké vazbě, 216 stran
vyd. Routledge, XII/2013
ISBN 9780415860116
běžná cena 1.212 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 990 Kč vč. DPH
Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital
punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics
common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do
not. 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.
Separate studies are conducted for democracies and non-democracies and within four
regional contexts.
The book also contains an in-depth investigation into determinants of the death penalty in
the USA.
Global Decline of Mandatory Death
Penalty
v pevné vazbě, 248 stran
vyd. Routledge, VIII/2013
ISBN 9780415827393
v pevné vazbě, 224 stran
vyd. Ashgate Publishing, V/2014
ISBN 9781472423252
běžná cena 3.417 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 2.800 Kč vč. DPH
běžná cena 2.615 Kč vč. DPH
v této nabídce 2.140 Kč vč. DPH
The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since
the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of
capital punishment. This book focuses on the political and legal issues raised by the
death penalty in "countries in transition", understood as countries that have
transitioned or are transitioning from conflict to peace, or from authoritarianism to
democracy. In such countries, the politics that surround retaining or abolishing the
death penalty are embedded in complex state-building processes.
In this context, Madoka Futamura and Nadia Bernaz bring together the work of leading
researchers of international law, human rights, transitional justice, and international
politics in order to explore the social, political and legal factors that shape decisions on
the death penalty, whether this leads to its abolition, reinstatement or perpetuation.
Covering a diverse range of transitional processes in Asia, Africa, Latin America,
Europe, and the Middle East, The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in
Transition offers a broad evaluation of countries whose death penalty policies have
rarely been studied. The book would be useful to human rights researchers and
international lawyers, in demonstrating how transition and transformation, 'provide the
catalyst for several of interrelated developments of which one is the reduction and
elimination of capital punishment'.
Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of
murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, however, many former
British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial
sentencing discretion, including consideration of mitigating factors. Applying a
comparative analysis to the law of capital punishment, Novak examines the constitutional
jurisprudence and resulting legislative reform in the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and
South and Southeast Asia, focusing on the rapid retreat of the mandatory death penalty
in the Commonwealth over the last thirty years.The coordinated mandatory death penalty
challenges - which have had the consequence of greatly reducing the world's death row
population - represent a case study of how a small group of lawyers can sponsor human
rights litigation that incorporates international human rights law into domestic
constitutional jurisprudence, ultimately harmonizing criminal justice regimes across
borders.This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the study and
development of Human Rights and Capital Punishment, as well as those exploring the
contours of Comparative Criminal Justice.