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Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have
abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due
mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European
nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of
executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support capital
punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in
the world's most rapidly developing region?
David T. Johnson,
an expert on law and society in Asia, and Franklin E. Zimring, a senior
authority on capital punishment, combine detailed case studies of the
death penalty in Asian nations with cross-national comparisons to
identify the critical factors for the future of Asian death penalty
policy. The clear trend is away from reliance on state execution and
many nations with death penalties in their criminal codes rarely use it.
Only the hard-line authoritarian regimes of China, Vietnam, Singapore,
and North Korea execute with any frequency, and when authoritarian
states experience democratic reforms, the rate of executions drops
sharply, as in Taiwan and South Korea. Debunking the myth of "Asian
values," Johnson and Zimring demonstrate that politics, rather than
culture or tradition, is the major obstacle to the end of executions.
Carefully researched and full of valuable lessons, The Next Frontier is the authoritative resource on the death penalty in Asia for scholars, policymakers, and advocates around the world.
Features
- The case studies and appendices provide the
most authoritative resources available in the English language on the
death penalty in Asia
- Though the pace of change will be slow, the authors ultimately conclude that executions will end in Asia as they have in Europe
- Zimring is a well-known authority on the death penalty often
quoted in the media; Johnson is an award-winning scholar of law and
society in Asia
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Product Details
- Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 2, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0195382455
ISBN-13: 978-0195382457
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