Life imprisonment and human rights / / edited by Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (539 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 345/.0773
• Soggetto topico: Life imprisonment
• Persona (resp. second.): AppletonCatherine; Van Zyl SmitDirk
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Dirk van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton and Georgie Benford -- The impact of life imprisonment on criminal justice reform in the United States -- Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis -- Life imprisonment in Latin America -- Beatriz López Lorca -- Life without parole in Australia : current practices, juveniles and retrospective sentencing -- Kate Fitz-Gibbon -- Life imprisonment and human rights in Uganda -- Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi -- A new form of life imprisonment for India? -- Madhurima Dhanuka -- An administrative procedure for life prisoners : law and practice of royal pardon in the Netherlands -- Wiene van Hattum and Sonja Meijer -- Constitutionalizing life imprisonment without parole : the case of Hungary -- Miklós Lévay -- A right to hope? : life imprisonment in France -- Marion Vannier -- The paradox of reform : life imprisonment in England and Wales -- Catherine Appleton and Dirk van Zyl Smit -- Life imprisonment in Belgium : current human rights challenges -- Sonja Snacken, Ineke Casier, Caroline Devynck and Diete Humblet -- Confusingly compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights : the release of life sentence prisoners in Ireland -- Diarmuid Griffin and Ian O'Donnell -- Punishment in Portuguese criminal law : a penal system without life imprisonment -- Inês Horta Pinto -- The abolition of life imprisonment in Brazil and its contradictions -- Giovanna Frisso -- Long-term imprisonment in Latin America -- Francisco Javier de León Villalba -- Life and long-term imprisonment in the countries of the former Yugoslavia -- Filip Vojta -- The right to hope for lifers : an analysis of court judgments and practice in Poland -- Maria Ejchart-Dubois, Maria Nielaczna and Aneta Wilkowska-Plóciennik -- Long-term and life imprisonment in Spain : release procedures and terrorism -- Jon-Mirena Landa Gorostiza -- Constitutional limits on life imprisonment and post-sentence preventive detention in Germany -- Axel Dessecker -- Life without parole for preventive reasons : lifelong post-sentence detention in Switzerland -- Anna Coninx -- Life imprisonment and related institutions in the nordic countries -- Tapio Lappi-Seppälä.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human rights
• Titolo autorizzato: Life imprisonment and human rights
• ISBN: 1-5099-0221-X; 1-5099-0222-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910148570403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oñati international series in law and society.