Follow fashion: Britain’s continuing influence on the death penalty in the Caribbean

This chapter will critically examine the development of the death penalty from a socio-legal perspective. The social dimension relates to the exploration of the historical basis for the death penalty phenomenon in the Commonwealth Caribbean and its link to British colonial rule. There is also a need...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Affonso, Timothy A. (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: The Palgrave handbook of Caribbean criminology
Year: 2024, Pages: 461-475
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Keywords:
death penalty
Human Rights
Privy Council
Colonialism
Caribbean