The latest issue of Punishment and Society has a book review of Hood's classic book on the death penalty movement, with an international perspective.The death penalty: A worldwide perspective, Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle. Oxford University Press, 2008. 504 pp. $120 cloth. ISBN–10: 0199228469. Review can be viewed here.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Abolitionist Movement: Progress and Prospects
- 2. In the Vanguard of Abolition
- 3. Where Capital Punishment Remains Contested
- 4. The Scope of Capital Punishment in Law
- 5. The Death Penalty in Reality: The Process of Execution and the Death Row Experience
- 6. Excluding the Vulnerable from Capital Punishment
- 7. Protecting the Accused and Ensuring Due Process
- 8. Deciding Who Should Die: Problems of Inequity, Arbitrariness, and Racial Discrimination
- 9. The Question of Deterrence
- 10. A Question of Opinion or a Question of Principle?
- 11. The Challenge of a Suitable Replacement
- Appendix 1: Lists of Retentionist and Abolitionist Countries
- Appendix 2: Ratification of International Treaties
- Appendix 3: International Instruments
- Bibliography
- Cases Cited Index
