The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective [Paperback]

Roger Hood (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0199251282 | ISBN-13: 978-0199251285 | Publication Date: February 6, 2003 | Edition: 3

This is the completely revised and updated third edition of Roger Hood's classic study on the death penalty. In it he surveys and analyses the status of the death penalty as a punishment worldwide, taking into account the changes that have taken place during the six years since the last edition was published. This new edition is especially valuable at a time when more and more countries are joining the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide.

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"'This work offers the reader comprehensive insight into the current use of the death penalty throughout the world...This book is both comprehensive and extremely informative and will appeal to students, researchers, and anyone else seeking knowledge on the current state of the death penalty around the world."--Criminal Justice

About the Author

Roger Hood, CBE, FBA, is a Fellow of All Souls College, Professor of Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at Oxford University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (February 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0199251282
• ISBN-13: 978-0199251285
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Comprehensive Survey Available, November 5, 2006

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This review is from: The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (Paperback)

Professor Hood's _The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective_, 3rd Ed. is the most comprehensive review of the death penalty around the world that I have ever found. Professor Hood was a consultant to the United Nations' study of capital punishment and the observance of safeguards for those facing the death penalty (conducted every 5 years).

This book draws not only on material from that survey but on a vast array of other available academic materials but is presented in a very accessible way and is presented objectively. There is very little presented in terms of statistical analysis as the survey is much more of a work to understand what the standards are in each country that retains the death penalty and how they stand in regards to the international safeguards and standards (such as those set by the UN Economic and Social Council).

Professor Hood is critical of countries that refuse to provide any figures on their practices of the death penalty or cooperate with the UN survey, but is able to draw on other sources to provide some idea of what is going on in those countries.

This book is an essential part of any library for those interested in Human Rights or especially in the death penalty. It does not hide behind rhetoric and gives the most objective and comprehensive material available in a single volume. It is footnoted and has 263 pages excluding the index but including 3 appendices (245 without appendices).