Life Imprisonment and Human Rights

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Dirk Van Zyl Appleton Smit, Dirk van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton
• Assisted by: Dirk van Zyl Smit (Editor), Catherine Appleton (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2019
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology
• EAN: 9781509928835
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-2883-5
• Pages: 544
• Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society; Oñati International Series in; Onati International Series in Law and Society; Oñati International Series in; Oñati International Series in Law and Society
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Crime and criminology; Penology and punishment; Penology & punishment