Rövid leírás:
This is the first book on the death penalty in Asia, where over 90% of all current state killings occur and every type of death penalty policy exists. Johnson and Zimring review the prospects for its abolishment throughout the region in a series of authoritative case studies and investigate the continuities and limits between European abolition and attendant human rights perspectives and the culture, government, and policy of Asian nations.
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Hosszú leírás:
Today, two-thirds of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support capital punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in the world’s most rapidly developing region?
David T. Johnson, an expert on law and society in Asia, and Franklin E. Zimring, a senior authority on capital punishment, combine detailed case studies of the death penalty in Asian nations with cross-national comparisons to identify the critical factors for the future of Asian death penalty policy. The clear trend is away from reliance on state execution and many nations with death penalties in their criminal codes rarely use it. Only the hard-line authoritarian regimes of China, Vietnam, Singapore, and North Korea execute with any frequency, and when authoritarian states experience democratic reforms, the rate of executions drops sharply, as in Taiwan and South Korea. Debunking the myth of „Asian values,” Johnson and Zimring demonstrate that politics, rather than culture or tradition, is the major obstacle to the end of executions. Carefully researched and full of valuable lessons, The Next Frontier is the authoritative resource on the death penalty in Asia for scholars, policymakers, and advocates around the world.
Virtually every page of the book is so packed with information that readers will find themselves pausing to admire the author’s command of the facts…^
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Part I: Issues and Methods
Asia and the Future of Capital Punishment
Varieties of Capital Punishment in Contemporary Asia
Part II: National Profiles
Development without Abolition: Japan in the 21st Century
A Lesson Learned: Capital Punishment in the Philippines
The Vanguard: The Death Penalty and Political Change in South Korea
The Other China: Capital Punishment in Taiwan
The Political Origins of Chinese Death Penalty Exceptionalism
Part III: Lessons and Prospects
Lessons from Asia
The Pace of Change in Asia
Appendix A: Capital Punishment in the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea
Appendix B: One Country, Two Systems: Death Penalty Policy in Hong Kong and Macao
Appendix C: China Lite? The Death Penalty in Vietnam
Appendix D: Death Sentences and Executions in Thailand
Appendix E: The Death Penalty in Singapore
Appendix F: The Death Penalty in India
Appendix G: State-Killing in Asia: On the Relationship between Judicial and Extra-Judicial Executions
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