Overview
- The first book with concrete information on the law and practice of life imprisonment in Asia
- Debates life imprisonment in Asia, both as an alternative to the death penalty and as a punishment in its own right
- The only book to assess the human rights implications of the different forms of life imprisonment in Asian countries
Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia (PACCJA)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Life Imprisonment in Asia should be read by everyone who has an interest in just punishments for serious offences, not only in Asia, but throughout the world. It will be an invaluable tool for lawyers, criminologists, policy makers and penal reform advocates in the region and beyond.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dirk van Zyl Smit is Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law, University of Nottingham and Emeritus Professor of Criminology, University of Cape Town.
Catherine Appleton is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Education in Security, Prisons and Forensic Psychiatry, St Olav’s Hospital and at the Department of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Vucong Giao is Head of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law and Director of the Research Center for Human and Citizen’s Rights under School of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-LS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life Imprisonment in Asia
Editors: Dirk van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton, Giao Vucong
Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4664-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4663-9Published: 01 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4666-0Published: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4664-6Published: 30 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-2878
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 360
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Prison and Punishment, Human Rights, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights