Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

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Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger (Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, University of Oxford and Emeritus fellow) Surya Deva (Associate Professor, School of Law, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong)

Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia

Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger (Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, University of Oxford and Emeritus fellow), Surya Deva (Associate Professor, School of Law, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong)

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Oxford University Press
06 November 2013

Ethical issues: capital punishment; Penology & punishment; Human rights; Sentencing & punishment

With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty. This is in recognition that it is a violation of the right to life and the right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. There has, simultaneously, been pressure on countries that still retain capital punishment to ensure that they at least apply the United Nations minimum human rights safeguards established to protect the rights of those facing the death penalty.

This book shows that the majority of Asian countries have been particularly resistant to the abolitionist movement and tardy in accepting their responsibility to uphold the safeguards.

The essays contained in this volume provide an in-depth analysis of changes in the scope and application of the death penalty in Asia with a focus on China, India, Japan, and Singapore. They explain the extent to which these nations still fail to accept capital punishment as a human rights issue, identify impediments to reform, and explore the prospects that Asian countries will eventually embrace the goal of worldwide abolition of capital punishment.

Edited by: Roger Hood QC (Hon) DCL FBA Roger (Professor Emeritus of Criminology Professor Emeritus of Criminology University of Oxford and Emeritus fellow), Surya Deva (Associate Professor, School of Law, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 662g
ISBN: 9780199685776
ISBN 10: 0199685770
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 06 November 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Situating Asia in an International Human Rights Context 1: Franklin E Zimring: State Execution: Is Asia Different and Why? 2: Saul Lehrfreund: The Impact and Importance of International Human Rights Standards: Asia in World Perspective 3: Michelle Miao: Examining China's Response to the Global Campaign against the Death Penalty 4: YSR Murthy: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Abolishing Capital Punishment: A Critical Evaluation 5: Sam Garkawe: The Role of Abolitionist Nations in stopping the use of the Death Penalty in Asia: The Case of Australia The Progress So Far 6: Liu Renwen: Recent Reforms and Prospects in China 7: Amit Bindal and C Raj Kumar: Abolition of the Death Penalty in India: Constitutional and Human Rights Dimensions 8: Michael Hor: Singapore's Death Penalty: The Beginning of the End? 9: David T Johnson: Progress and Problems in Japanese Capital Punishment Public Opinion and Death Penalty Reform 10: Børge Bakken: Capital Punishment Reform, Public Opinion, and Penal Elitism in the People's Republic of China 11: Mai Sato: Challenging the Japanese Government's Approach to the Death Penalty The Politics of Capital Punishment in Practice 12: Susan Trevaskes: Suspending Death in Chinese Capital Cases: The Road to Reform 13: Surya Deva: Death Penalty in the 'Rarest of Rare' Cases: A Critique of Judicial Choice-Making 14: Bikramjeet Batra: Don't be Cruel: The 'Death Row Phenomenon' and India's 'Delay' Jurisprudence

Roger Hood is a Research Associate, formerly Professor of Criminology and Fellow of All Souls College, and former Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, All Souls College. He received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in 2012 the European Society of Criminology Award for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist. His research has had four main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; the parole system; and the history of the emergence of penal policy. Dr Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. Dr Deva's primary research interests lie in Corporate Social Responsibility, Indo-Chinese Constitutional Law, International Human Rights, Globalisation, and Sustainable Development. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles in these areas.

Reviews for Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

To what extent does popular support for discontinuation of the death penalty have to be presented for abolitionist laws to be legitimate? Do changes in public attitudes toward the death penalty necessarily precede abolition, or do cultural shifts occur later as a by-product of bold legal or political reforms? In raising these and other questions, this volume not only adds to our understanding of capital punishment in an area of obvious interest, but opens new and promising directions for further inquiry. Stephen Noakes, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books