Capital punishment : strategies for abolition / / edited by Peter Hodgkinson and William A. Schabas [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784412903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-107-14477-9; 1-280-45784-8; 0-511-18543-X; 0-511-18460-3; 0-511-18723-8; 0-511-31340-3; 0-511-48927-7; 0-511-18630-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 364.66
• Soggetti: Capital punishment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Capital punishment : improve it or remove it / Peter Hodgkinson -- International law and the death penalty : reflecting or promoting change / William A. Schabas -- Doctors and the death penalty : ethics and a cruel punishment / Robert Ferris, James Welsh -- Replacing the death penalty : the vexed issue of alternative sanctions / Andrew Coyle -- Religion and the death penalty in the United States : past and present / James J. Megivern -- On botched executions / Marian J. Borg, Michael L. Radelet -- Death as a penalty in the Shari'ā / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Abolishing the death penalty in the United States : an analysis of institutional obstacles and future prospects / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Capital punishment in the United States : moratorium efforts and other key developments / Ronald J. Tabak -- The experience of Lithuania's journey to abolition / Aleksandras Dobryninas -- The death penalty in South Korea and Japan : Asian values and the debate about capital punishment / Byung-Sun Cho -- Georgia, former republic of the USSR : managing abolition / Eric Svanidze -- Capital punishment in the ; Commonwealth Caribbean : colonial inheritance, colonial remedy / Julian B. Knowles -- Public opinion and the death penalty / William A. Schabas -- Capital punishment : meeting the needs of the families of the homicide victim and the condemned / Peter Hodgkinson.
• Sommario/riassunto: What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory but in reality rarely invoke it? By asking these questions, the editors hope to isolate the core issues that influence the formulation of legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies for advising governments considering changes to their policy on capital punishment. They also seek to redress the imbalance in research, which tends to focus almost exclusively on the experience of the USA, by covering a range of countries such as South Korea, Lithuania, Japan and the British Caribbean Commonwealth. This valuable contribution to the debates around capital punishment contains contributions from leading academics, campaigners and legal practitioners and will be an important resource for students, academics, NGOs, policy makers, lawyers and jurists.

Acta ethologica

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910138888903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer-Verlag New York
• ISSN: 1437-9546
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 591.5
• Soggetti: Animal behavior; Human behavior; Psychobiology; Éthologie; Comportement humain; Psychobiologie; Etologia; Conducta (Psicologia); Psicobiologia; Periodicals.; Revistes electròniques.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Refereed/Peer-reviewed
• Sommario/riassunto: Publishes research papers (both empirical and theoretical contributions), short communications, reviews and book reviews in the field of ethology and related disciplines, with a strong bearing on the behavior biology of humans and other animals. Special emphasis is placed on studies integrating proximate (i.e. mechanisms, development) and ultimate (i.e. function, evolution) levels in the analysis of behavior.