Robyn Linde

Globalization of Childhood

The International Diffusion of Norms and Law Against the Child Death Penalty

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a qualitative, comparative study of the diffusion of a single human rights norm¿the abolition of the death penalty for child offenders¿this book argues that the growth of state control over children contributed to the consolidation of the state and the creation of international order.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190601379
• ISBN-10: 019060137X
• Artikelnr.: 47870578

Autorenporträt

Robyn Linde is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rhode Island College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* Chapter 1: Introduction: The globalization of childhood
* Chapter 2: Data and case selection
* Chapter 3: Principled activism as a mechanism of diffusion
* Chapter 4: Coercive socialization as a mechanism of diffusion
* Chapter 5: Globalized childhood as a mechanism of diffusion
* Chapter 6: Laggards in the global age of the child
* Chapter 7: Conclusion
* Appendix A: Documented executions of children in England in the 19th
century
* Appendix B: Jurisdictions that abolished the death penalty for child
offenders under the age of 18 prior to Roper v. Simmons
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index