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Sommario
- 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
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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.
Riassunto
This volume explores the continued use of capital punishment in Asia and the reasons behind its retention. Various contributions offer insights into the politics, practice and public opinion of Asian capital punishment
