This volume explores the continued use of capital punishment in Asia and the reasons behind its retention. Various contributions offer insights into the politics, practice and public opinion of Asian capital punishment
Roger Hood is a Research Associate, formerly Professor of Criminology and Fellow of All Souls College, and former Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, All Souls College. He received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in 2012 the European Society of Criminology Award for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist. His research has had four main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; the parole system; and the history of the emergence of penal policy. Dr Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Dr Deva's primary research interests lie in Corporate Social Responsibility, Indo-Chinese Constitutional Law, International Human Rights, Globalisation, and Sustainable Development. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles in these areas.
Show moreThis volume explores the continued use of capital punishment in Asia and the reasons behind its retention. Various contributions offer insights into the politics, practice and public opinion of Asian capital punishment
Roger Hood is a Research Associate, formerly Professor of Criminology and Fellow of All Souls College, and former Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, All Souls College. He received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in 2012 the European Society of Criminology Award for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist. His research has had four main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; the parole system; and the history of the emergence of penal policy. Dr Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Dr Deva's primary research interests lie in Corporate Social Responsibility, Indo-Chinese Constitutional Law, International Human Rights, Globalisation, and Sustainable Development. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles in these areas.
Show moreSituating Asia in an International Human Rights Context
1: Franklin E Zimring: State Execution: Is Asia Different and
Why?
2: Saul Lehrfreund: The Impact and Importance of International
Human Rights Standards: Asia in World Perspective
3: Michelle Miao: Examining China's Response to the Global Campaign
against the Death Penalty
4: YSR Murthy: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in
Abolishing Capital Punishment: A Critical Evaluation
5: Sam Garkawe: The Role of Abolitionist Nations in stopping the
use of the Death Penalty in Asia: The Case of Australia
The Progress So Far
6: Liu Renwen: Recent Reforms and Prospects in China
7: Amit Bindal and C Raj Kumar: Abolition of the Death Penalty in
India: Constitutional and Human Rights Dimensions
8: Michael Hor: Singapore's Death Penalty: The Beginning of the
End?
9: David T Johnson: Progress and Problems in Japanese Capital
Punishment
Public Opinion and Death Penalty Reform
10: Børge Bakken: Capital Punishment Reform, Public Opinion, and
Penal Elitism in the People's Republic of China
11: Mai Sato: Challenging the Japanese Government's Approach to the
Death Penalty
The Politics of Capital Punishment in Practice
12: Susan Trevaskes: Suspending Death in Chinese Capital Cases: The
Road to Reform
13: Surya Deva: Death Penalty in the 'Rarest of Rare' Cases: A
Critique of Judicial Choice-Making
14: Bikramjeet Batra: Don't be Cruel: The 'Death Row Phenomenon'
and India's 'Delay' Jurisprudence
Roger Hood is a Research Associate, formerly Professor of
Criminology and Fellow of All Souls College, and former Director of
the Centre for Criminological Research, All Souls College. He
received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International
Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his
contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in
2012 the European Society of Criminology Award for a lifetime
contribution as a
European criminologist. His research has had four main strands: the
death penalty; race and sentencing; the parole system; and the
history of the emergence of penal policy.
Dr Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of
City University of Hong Kong. Dr Deva's primary research interests
lie in Corporate Social Responsibility, Indo-Chinese Constitutional
Law, International Human Rights, Globalisation, and Sustainable
Development. He has published numerous book chapters and journal
articles in these areas.
To what extent does popular support for discontinuation of the
death penalty have to be presented for abolitionist laws to be
legitimate? Do changes in public attitudes toward the death penalty
necessarily precede abolition, or do cultural shifts occur later as
a by-product of bold legal or political reforms? In raising these
and other questions, this volume not only adds to our understanding
of capital punishment in an area of obvious interest, but opens new
and promising directions for further inquiry.
*Stephen Noakes, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books*
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