000859178 000__ 03673cam\a2200457Ki\4500 000859178 001__ 859178 000859178 005__ 20210515160830.0 000859178 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000859178 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000859178 008__ 190329s2018\\\\maua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000859178 019__ $$a1083439528 000859178 020__ $$a9780674989139$$q(electronic book) 000859178 020__ $$a0674989139$$q(electronic book) 000859178 020__ $$z9780674980662 000859178 020__ $$z0674980662 000859178 035__ $$a(OCoLC)on1077292256 000859178 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1077292256$$z(OCoLC)1083439528 000859178 035__ $$a859178 000859178 040__ $$aN$T$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cN$T$$dJSTOR$$dYDX 000859178 049__ $$aISEA 000859178 050_4 $$aK5105.5$$b.V36 2018eb 000859178 08204 $$a364.6$$223 000859178 1001_ $$aVan Zyl Smit, Dirk,$$eauthor. 000859178 24510 $$aLife imprisonment :$$ba global human rights analysis /$$cDirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton. 000859178 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2018. 000859178 300__ $$a1 online resource (xvi, 447 pages) :$$billustrations 000859178 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000859178 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000859178 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000859178 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000859178 5050_ $$aDebating life -- Describing life -- Prevalence of life -- Exempt from life -- Offenses that carry life -- Imposing life -- Doing life -- Implementing life well -- Release from life -- Life after life -- Rethinking life. 000859178 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000859178 520__ $$aLife imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights-based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment. Life Imprisonment explores this trend through systematic data collection and legal analysis, persuasively illustrated by detailed maps, charts, tables, and comprehensive statistical appendices. The central question--can life sentences be just?--is straightforward, but the answer is complicated by the vast range of penal practices that fall under the umbrella of life imprisonment. Van Zyl Smit and Appleton contend that life imprisonment without possibility of parole can never be just. While they have some sympathy for the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, they conclude that life imprisonment, in many of the ways it is implemented worldwide, infringes on the requirements of justice. They also examine the outliers--states that have no life imprisonment--to highlight the possibility of abolishing life sentences entirely. Life Imprisonment is an incomparable resource for lawyers, lawmakers, criminologists, policy scholars, and penal-reform advocates concerned with balancing justice and public safety.--$$cProvided by publisher. 000859178 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000859178 650_0 $$aLife imprisonment. 000859178 7001_ $$aAppleton, Catherine,$$eauthor. 000859178 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aVan Zyl Smit, Dirk.$$tLife imprisonment.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018$$z9780674980662$$w(DLC) 2018012887$$w(OCoLC)1031422088 000859178 852__ $$bcoll 000859178 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000859178 85640 $$3eBooks on EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1906090$$zOnline Access 000859178 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:859178$$pGLOBAL_SET 000859178 980__ $$aEBOOK 000859178 980__ $$aBIB 000859178 982__ $$aEbook 000859178 983__ $$aOnline 000859178 994__ $$a92$$bISE