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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-30 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences. Yet, in Asia the phenomenon has never b
Life Imprisonment
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Authors: Dirk van Zyl Smit
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Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue
Last Chance for Life
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Pages: 369
Authors: Daniel Pascoe
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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An analysis of the differences in clemency practice among the Southeast Asian jurisdictions in an inductive search for patterns that explain why some countries
Life Imprisonment and Human Rights
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Pages: 544
Authors: Dirk van Zyl Smit
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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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 punishm
Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia
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Authors: Roger Hood
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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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 abolishe