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The fifth edition of this renowned work charts the progress towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty internationally. The authors make a powerful case for abolition, regarding capital punishment as cruel, inhuman, and degrading.
Professor Roger Hood is Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College. He took his Ph.D. at the Law Faculty of the University of Cambridge at the Institute of Criminology, and is a Doctor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. From 1973 to 2003 he was Director of the Oxford Centre for Criminology. In 1986 he received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology for 'Distinguished International Contributions to Criminology'; in 2011 the Cesare Beccaria Medal from the International Society of Social Defence and Humane Criminal Policy; and in 2012 the ESC European Criminology Award 'for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist'. As consultant to the United Nations, he prepared the Secretary-General's 5th, 6th, and 7th Quinquennial reports on capital punishment. Professor Carolyn Hoyle, Director of the Centre for Criminology, has been at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology since 1991. She has published empirical and theoretical research on a number of criminological topics including domestic violence, policing, restorative justice, the death penalty, and miscarriages of justice. With Dr Mai Sato, she is currently conducting research into applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission concerning alleged miscarriages of justice in the UK.
Show moreThe fifth edition of this renowned work charts the progress towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty internationally. The authors make a powerful case for abolition, regarding capital punishment as cruel, inhuman, and degrading.
Professor Roger Hood is Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College. He took his Ph.D. at the Law Faculty of the University of Cambridge at the Institute of Criminology, and is a Doctor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. From 1973 to 2003 he was Director of the Oxford Centre for Criminology. In 1986 he received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology for 'Distinguished International Contributions to Criminology'; in 2011 the Cesare Beccaria Medal from the International Society of Social Defence and Humane Criminal Policy; and in 2012 the ESC European Criminology Award 'for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist'. As consultant to the United Nations, he prepared the Secretary-General's 5th, 6th, and 7th Quinquennial reports on capital punishment. Professor Carolyn Hoyle, Director of the Centre for Criminology, has been at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology since 1991. She has published empirical and theoretical research on a number of criminological topics including domestic violence, policing, restorative justice, the death penalty, and miscarriages of justice. With Dr Mai Sato, she is currently conducting research into applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission concerning alleged miscarriages of justice in the UK.
Show moreIntroduction
1: The Abolitionist Movement: Progress and Prospects
2: In the Vanguard of Abolition
3: Where Capital Punishment Remains Contested
4: The Scope of Capital Punishment in Law
5: The Death Penalty in Reality: The Process of Execution and the
Death Row Experience
6: Excluding the Vulnerable from Capital Punishment
7: Protecting the Accused and Ensuring Due Process
8: Deciding Who Should Die: Problems of Inequity, Arbitrariness,
and Racial Discrimination
9: The Question of Deterrence
10: A Question of Opinion or a Question of Principle?
11: The Challenge of a Suitable Replacement
Appendices
Bibliography
Cases Cited
Index
Professor Roger Hood is Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the
University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College. He
took his Ph.D. at the Law Faculty of the University of Cambridge at
the Institute of Criminology, and is a Doctor of Civil Law at the
University of Oxford. From 1973 to 2003 he was Director of the
Oxford Centre for Criminology. In 1986 he received the
Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology for
'Distinguished
International Contributions to Criminology'; in 2011 the Cesare
Beccaria Medal from the International Society of Social Defence and
Humane Criminal Policy; and in 2012 the ESC European Criminology
Award 'for a
lifetime contribution as a European criminologist'. As consultant
to the United Nations, he prepared the Secretary-General's 5th,
6th, and 7th Quinquennial reports on capital punishment. Professor
Carolyn Hoyle, Director of the Centre for Criminology, has been at
the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology since 1991. She has
published empirical and theoretical research on a number of
criminological topics including domestic violence, policing,
restorative justice, the death penalty, and
miscarriages of justice. With Dr Mai Sato, she is currently
conducting research into applications to the Criminal Cases Review
Commission concerning alleged miscarriages of justice in the UK.
`Review from previous edition The skill with which this material is
brought together and evaluated from all over the world makes this
book a documentary masterpiece...it is also an important
contribution to the general theory of deterrence.'
Professor Heike Jung, Zeitschrift für Strafvollzug und
Straffälligenhilfe
`Its rigorous scholarship and the breadth of its coverage are
hugely impressive features; its claim to "worldwide" coverage is no
idle boast. This can fairly lay claim to being the closest thing to
a definitive source-book on this important subject.'
Paul Craig, Public Law
`This current edition of the series is an indispensable resource
for serious students of the death penalty anywhere. It is also well
written and happily devoid of academic pretension. We are long past
the era when anyone could argue that trends in other nations are of
no importance to domestic death penalty policy, and this is as true
in the United States as in the PRC and Rwanda...What Hood and Hoyle
provide their readers is a careful sifting of data
together with a level of analysis beyond the capacity of resources
like Amnesty International.'
Punishment & Society 11 (2), 2009
`The prose is polished and eminently readable. The scholarship is
what one expects from two top Oxford academics. The book is much
more than an update of the third edition. It contains new chapters
and develops subjects that were not treated in any detail by
Professor Hood in the past. Its message is inspiring and its
arguments are devastating. The fourth edition of The Death Penalty,
A Worldwide Perspective book belongs in the library of all the
readers of
this journal.'
William A. Schabas, Human Rights Quarterly 2009
`It is important to acknowledge that the book is not simply a
scholarly masterpiece in the purely academic sense...this work
constitutes a major contribution to the real world of punishing the
most serious offenders...It is both masterly and magisterial and,
especially for those who have a genuine interest in the subject,
indispensible.'
Prof Barry Mitchell, Justice of the Peace Vol 172
`This fourth edition in 2008, takes the work to greater heights of
being the last word on a worldwide perspective on the death
penalty. No book on the subject gives such up-to-date authentic
information on this grim subject.'
The Commonwealth Lawyer.
`...provide(s) a wealth of information, analysis and strategic
advice on abolition from an international and comparative
perspective...It constitutes an exhaustive and devastating critique
of the way in which capital punishment functions currently'
Roger S Clark, Criminal Law Forum
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