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100 1 van Zyl Smit, D
245 10 Taking life imprisonment seriously in national and
international law :|bIn National and International Law
264 1 Leiden :|bBRILL,|c2002
264 4 |c©2002
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505 0 Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of
Tables -- CHAPTER 1 - STUDYING LIFE IMPRISONMENT -- 1.
What is a life sentence? -- 2. A brief historical
introduction -- 3. Justifying and limiting punishment --
a) Prohibitions on cruel, inhuman and degrading
punishments -- b) Human dignity -- c) Rehabilitation -- d)
Liberty, legality and due process -- 4. Punishment in
context -- 5. The structure of this book -- CHAPTER 2 -
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- 1. The current position --
2. Historical background -- a) The colonies and the new
republic -- b) A new penal vision -- c) Implementing the
new vision -- d) Consolidation and restriction -- 3. The
1970s and the modern era -- a) Life sentences for drug
offenders -- b) Life without parole -- c) 'Three strikes
and you are out' -- 4. Life imprisonment and the
Constitution -- 5. Juveniles -- 6. Indirect life sentences
for the dangerous sane? -- 7. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 -
ENGLAND AND WALES -- 1. The current position -- 2.
Historical background -- a) Early alternatives to the
death penalty -- b) Indeterminate preventive sentences --
c) Life imprisonment and the abolition of the death
penalty -- 3. The new system in operation -- 4.
Contemporary life imprisonment: so what has changed? -- a)
Imposing life prior to the Human Rights Act 1998 -- b)
Implementing life -- 5. Human rights for lifers as the way
forward? -- 6. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 - GERMANY -- 1. The
current position -- 2. Historical background -- 3. The
purpose of imprisonment and the life sentence -- 4. The
constitutional challenge -- 5. The impact of the 1977
decision of the Federal Constitutional Court -- 6. Further
constitutional decisions -- 7. Abolition as the
(constitutional) alternative? -- 8. Resurgent
punitiveness? -- 9. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 -
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 1. The current position
505 8 2. Punishment in international law -- 3. The International
Law Commission -- a) Arguments against life imprisonment -
- b) Arguments for life imprisonment -- 4. Building on the
debate of the International Law Commission -- 5. Life
imprisonment and international Realpolitik -- a) Life
imprisonment as automatic substitute for the death
penalty? -- b) Releasing lifers -- c) The tribunals in
practice -- 6. The International Criminal Court: a
principled compromise? -- a) Restricted use of life
imprisonment -- b) International penalties and national
laws -- c) Enforcement of sentences -- 7. Conclusion --
CHAPTER 6 - TAKING LIFE IMPRISONMENT SERIOUSLY? -- 1.
Introduction -- 2. Severity and proportionality -- 3. Life
sentences for habitual offenders? -- 4. Dangerousness and
risk as limits on proportionality -- 5. Dangerousness
tamed? -- 6. Life imprisonment for the most severe crimes?
-- 7. Human dignity -- 8. Practice -- 9. Conclusion --
BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TABLE OF CASES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C --
D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -
- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
520 This text tackles the complexity of life imprisonment -
describing how various forms of it are imposed and
implemented in the US, England and Wales and Germany, as
well as in the international system of criminal justice.
The book also examines the justifications for its use
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Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access
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650 0 Life imprisonment.;Criminal justice, Administration of
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