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Life imprisonment : a global human rights analysis /

Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Van Zyl Smit, Dirk (Author), Appleton, Catherine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Debating life
  • Describing life
  • Prevalence of life
  • Exempt from life
  • Offenses that carry life
  • Imposing life
  • Doing life
  • Implementing life well
  • Release from life
  • Life after life
  • Rethinking life.