Life Imprisonment

Life Imprisonment
Author: Dirk van Zyl Smit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674989112

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Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue of international criminal justice reform. In the first survey of its kind, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this harsh punishment.


Life Imprisonment
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Dirk van Zyl Smit
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-14 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue
Life Imprisonment and Human Rights
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: Dirk van Zyl Smit
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishm
Taking Life Imprisonment Seriously
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Kenneth G. Zysk
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-04-01 - Publisher: BRILL

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Life imprisonment is a complex and drastic penal sanction. It gives the State the power to curtail the liberty of offenders for the rest of their lives. In many
Taking Life Imprisonment Seriously in National and International Law
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Dirk Van Zyl Smit
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Brill - Nijhoff

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CHAPTER 4 - GERMANY
Life Imprisonment in Asia
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Dirk van Zyl Smit
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-30 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences. Yet, in Asia the phenomenon has never b