TY - JOUR
AU - Hood, Roger
AB - BRIT. J. CRIMINOL. (2005) 45, 402–422 REVIEWS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: STRATEGIES FOR ABOLITION. Edited by PETER HODGKINSON and WILLIAM A. SCHABAS (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 358pp. plus Index. £50.00 hb) The last 40 years have witnessed an extraordinary change in the extent to which countries have abandoned capital punishment. By 1965, the slow accumulation of nations which had rejected the death penalty since the modern movement began in the mid-nineteenth century had reached 25. Moreover, the majority (14) of these countries had abandoned it only for ‘ordinary’ crimes committed in peacetime, retaining it for possible use in states of emergency and wartime to punish treason or other crimes against the state and for grave derelictions of military duty. Yet, by the end of 2003, 91 countries had rejected capital pun- ishment, 78 of them for all crimes in all circumstances, in peacetime and wartime. The abo- litionist movement, backed by the United Nations, enshrined in protocols to International Human Rights Treaties and promoted throughout the world by the Council of Europe and the European Union, had taken on a global political dimension. Amongst the most advanced industrial societies, capital punishment remained on the statute books of the USA (38 
TI - Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition. Edited by Peter Hodgkinson and William A. Schabas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 358pp. plus Index. £50.00 hb)
JF - The British Journal of Criminology
DO - 10.1093/bjc/azi020
DA - 2005-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/capital-punishment-strategies-for-abolition-edited-by-peter-hodgkinson-zqcd4S3Y05
SP - 402
EP - 406
VL - 45
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -