Clear and Ever-Present Dangers? Redefining ‘Closure’ in a Post 9–11 World

Clear and Ever-Present Dangers? Redefining ‘Closure’ in a Post 9–11 World

Description

Professor Madeira's contribution, chapter 5, is titled "Clear and Ever-Present Dangers? Redefining ‘Closure’ in a Post 9–11 World."

ISBN

9781409457190 (hb.), 9781472407504 (ebook)

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Ashgate

City

Farnham, Surrey, England

Keywords

Capital punishment

Disciplines

Comparative and Foreign Law | Criminal Law | Law | Law Enforcement and Corrections

Comments

Scherdin, Lill, ed. Capital Punishment A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System? Ashgate, 2014.

As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present. It also examines how international, transnational and national forces intersect in order to understand the possibilities of future death penalty abolition.

The chapters cover the USA - the only western democracy that still uses the death penalty - and Asia - the site of some 90 per cent of all executions. Also included are discussions of the death penalty in Islam and its practice in selected Muslim majority countries. There is also a comparative chapter departing from the response to the mass killings in Norway in 2011. Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding of the relationships between ways of governance, the role of leadership and the death penalty practices.

This book questions whether the death penalty in and of itself is a hazard to a sustainable development of criminal justice. It is an invaluable resource for all those researching and campaigning for the global abolition of capital punishment.

Available as an e-book, to Indiana University-Bloomington patrons, here.

Full bibliographic details available here.

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, K 5104 .C373 2014

Clear and Ever-Present Dangers? Redefining ‘Closure’ in a Post 9–11 World

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