Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521115599)

The editors of this study isolate the core issues influencing legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies that advise governments in changing their policy on capital punishment. What are the critical factors determining whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory, but in reality rarely invoke it? These questions and others are explored in chapters on South Korea, Lithuania, Georgia, Japan and the British Caribbean Commonwealth, as well as the U.S.

Author: Peter Hodgkinson
ISBN-10: 0521115590
ISBN-13: 9780521115599
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2009
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d