Taking life imprisonment seriously in national and international law : In National and International Law.

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 jurisdictions life imprisonment is the ultimate sanction for the most serious crimes. It is frequently touted as an alternative to the deat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Zyl Smit, D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2002.
Temas:
Life imprisonment.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Réclusion à perpétuité.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Life imprisonment
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; CHAPTER 1
  • STUDYING LIFE IMPRISONMENT; 1. What is a life sentence?; 2. A brief historical introduction; 3. Justifying and limiting punishment; a) Prohibitions on cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments; b) Human dignity; c) Rehabilitation; d) Liberty, legality and due process; 4. Punishment in context; 5. The structure of this book; CHAPTER 2
  • THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; 1. The current position; 2. Historical background; a) The colonies and the new republic; b) A new penal vision; c) Implementing the new vision.
  • D) Consolidation and restriction3. The 1970s and the modern era; a) Life sentences for drug offenders; b) Life without parole; c) 'Three strikes and you are out'; 4. Life imprisonment and the Constitution; 5. Juveniles; 6. Indirect life sentences for the dangerous sane?; 7. Conclusion; CHAPTER 3
  • ENGLAND AND WALES; 1. The current position; 2. Historical background; a) Early alternatives to the death penalty; b) Indeterminate preventive sentences; c) Life imprisonment and the abolition of the death penalty; 3. The new system in operation.
  • 4. Contemporary life imprisonment: so what has changed?a) Imposing life prior to the Human Rights Act 1998; b) Implementing life; 5. Human rights for lifers as the way forward?; 6. Conclusion; CHAPTER 4
  • GERMANY; 1. The current position; 2. Historical background; 3. The purpose of imprisonment and the life sentence; 4. The constitutional challenge; 5. The impact of the 1977 decision of the Federal Constitutional Court; 6. Further constitutional decisions; 7. Abolition as the (constitutional) alternative?; 8. Resurgent punitiveness?; 9. Conclusion; CHAPTER 5
  • INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
  • 1. The current position2. Punishment in international law; 3. The International Law Commission; a) Arguments against life imprisonment; b) Arguments for life imprisonment; 4. Building on the debate of the International Law Commission; 5. Life imprisonment and international Realpolitik; a) Life imprisonment as automatic substitute for the death penalty?; b) Releasing lifers; c) The tribunals in practice; 6. The International Criminal Court: a principled compromise?; a) Restricted use of life imprisonment; b) International penalties and national laws; c) Enforcement of sentences; 7. Conclusion.
  • CHAPTER 6
  • TAKING LIFE IMPRISONMENT SERIOUSLY?1. Introduction; 2. Severity and proportionality; 3. Life sentences for habitual offenders?; 4. Dangerousness and risk as limits on proportionality; 5. Dangerousness tamed?; 6. Life imprisonment for the most severe crimes?; 7. Human dignity; 8. Practice; 9. Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; TABLE OF CASES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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