Hong Lu, Terance D Miethe

China's Death Penalty

History, Law and Contemporary Practices

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors' treatment of China's death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative, focusing on its theory and the actual practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780415803960
• ISBN-10: 0415803969
• Artikelnr.: 26105660

Autorenporträt

Hong Lu is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has authored a book Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective (with Terance D. Miethe) and numerous articles in the areas of criminology and comparative legal studies appearing in journals including Law & Society Review and British Journal of Criminology . Terance D. Miethe is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of 8 books and over 50 research articles in the areas of criminology and sociology. His most recent books include Rethinking Homicide: Exploring the Structure and Process Underlying Deadly Situations (with Wendy Regoeczi), Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective (with Hong Lu), and Fight Time: The Rules and Routines in Interpersonal Violence (with Gini Deibert).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Death Penalty as Law and Punishment 3. Historical and
Legal Development of the Death Penalty 4. Contemporary Substantive and
Procedural Criminal Law on the Death Penalty 5. The Application of the
Death Penalty 6. The Process of Death Sentence and Execution 7. Reforms and
the Future Prospects of the Death Penalty. Appendix: Judicial Judgment of
Selected Capital Cases