Capital Punishment: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367601119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 408 str.

Peter Hodgkinson

Opis

This collection questions the received wisdom contained in the debate about capital punishment. It asks questions and proposes remedies for a raft of issues identified as having been overlooked in the traditional discourse. It provides a long overdue review of the disparate groups and strategies that lay claim to abolitionism. The authors argue tha

Recenzje

'This practical, real-world perspective is painfully needed ... the book does a superb job of advancing this scholarship.' Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books

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Capital Punishment: New Perspectives

O autorze

Peter Hodgkinson entered university via employment as a Probation Officer in Inner London where he developed an interest and expertise in working with life sentenced and mentally disordered offenders. He has an honours degree in Psychology and a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work and these together with his experience of working with offenders, and a stint as Forensic Social Work Adviser have informed both his teaching and the establishment of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies at the University of Westminster, of which he is Founder and Director. In H. M. Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2004 he was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his work promoting human rights.