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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).
The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective ペーパーバック – 2003/2/6
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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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... it is a remarkable achievement to write such a wide-ranging and definitive book covering all aspects of the subject whilst maintaining strict academic neutrality. (JUSTICE of the PEACE)
This superb book is packed with data from all over the world backed with 25 pages of bibliography and it is its meticulous academic impartiality that makes an overwhelming case against capital punishment. (JUSTICE of the PEACE)
Prof Hood's work is a mine of information on the contemporary state of capital punishment. It is a compelling read for those who are revolted at the continuance of this punishment in today's civilised world. (Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers)
... the most authoritative account of the status of death penalty - its abolition and retention - in the contemporary world. (Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers)
'[Hood] has chronicled developments with the balance and objectivity that are to be expected of one of the world's pre-eminent criminology scholars ... Those who have used the first or second editions will not need an enthusiastic reviewer to tell them that the third edition is thorough, thought-provoking and indispensable.' (William Schabas, Irish Jurist, vol 38, 2003)
... magisterial ... Thoroughly updated and expanded since the second edition in 1996 ... Hood's work ... is in effect a one-stop shop for those who care passionately about ending capital punishment, but at the same time want accurate and comprehensive information to back up their case. (The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice)
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