Part I: Issues and Methods
1: Asia and the Future of Capital Punishment
2: Varieties of Capital Punishment in Contemporary Part II:
National Profiles
3: Development without Abolition: Japan in the 21st Century
4: A Lesson Learned: Capital Punishment in the Philippines
5: The Vanguard: The Death Penalty and Political Change in South
Korea
6: The Other China: Capital Punishment in Taiwan
7: The Political Origins of Chinese Death Penalty
Exceptionalism
Part III: Lessons and Prospects
8: Lessons from Asia
9: The Pace of Change in Asia
Appendix A: Capital Punishment in the Hermit Kingdom of North
Korea
Appendix B: One Country, Two Systems: Death Penalty Policy in Hong
Kong and Macao
Appendix C: China Lite? The Death Penalty in Vietnam
Appendix D: Death Sentences and Executions in Thailand
Appendix E: The Death Penalty in Singapore
Appendix F: The Death Penalty in India
Appendix G: State-Killing in Asia: On the Relationship between
Judicial and Extra-Judicial Executions
Notes
David T. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Hawaii and author of The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime
in Japan, which received book awards from the American Society of
Criminology and the American Sociological Association.
Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law and
Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at the University of California,
Berkeley. He is the author of The Contradictions of American
Capital Punishment (voted a Book of the Year by The Economist).
"The Next Frontier is one of the most important death penalty books
of our generation. Criminologists around the globe need to tip our
collective hats to Johnson and Zimring for producing a truly
phenomenal piece of scholarship."--Asian Journal of Criminology
"Anyone who wants to understand the changing use of capital
punishment and the prospects for its abolition in the most populous
region of the world should read Johnson and Zimring's magisterial
and timely analysis."--Roger Hood, Professor Emeritus of
Criminology, University of Oxford, and co-author of The Death
Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective, Fourth Edition
"This is an important and valuable book. Professors Johnson and
Zimring show the political essence of the death penalty in Asia and
suggest political reform as the mechanism to end execution in the
region. I pay tribute to their endeavor, and I sincerely hope that
their work will serve as guidance to the abolition of the death
penalty in Asia."--from the Foreword by Kim Dae-jung, 15th
President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
"In The Next Frontier, Johnson and Zimring conclude that the Asian
propensity for the death penalty is not the result of cultural
factors. Instead, they argue, the cause is political...The authors
argue that despite the popularity of the death penalty...there is
also great ambivalence about it. Populations that profess
enthusiasm for executions show little dismay when their leaders do
away with them anyway. To influence the region, Australia can
try
several strategies, but should avoid sermonising, a tactic that
would never work in Asia."--The Sydney Morning Herald
"A guide book and tour de force of the death penalty in Asia...This
is an excellent treatise, well organised and systematic, in a clear
and easily comprehensible style that avoids tedium through a
lightness of touch and as much humour as the sobriety of the
content might permit...an essential reference work...The clear and
accessible style renders it of use to all those concerned with the
death penalty, especially those in government, legal personnel and
above
all activists engaged in the struggle to banish the death penalty
from society."--Bangkok Post
"The logic, and politics, of the death penalty is heavily
under-researched, and so remains poorly understood, in the part of
the world that we inhabit. This tremendous effort to investigate
the death penalty in Asia is an opportunity to fathom the meaning
of punishment, interrogate the nature of state power, and
understand how international law has developed, and why."--The
Hindu
"A useful reference... Recommended."--Social & Behavioral Sciences
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