Description: Further DetailsTitle: Forgiveness WorkCondition: NewSubtitle: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in IranISBN-10: 069117203XEAN: 9780691172033ISBN: 9780691172033Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/23/2020Description: A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran’s criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentences—according to Amnesty International, the country has the world’s highest rate of capital punishment per capita. Less known to outside observers, however, is the Iranian criminal code’s recognition of forgiveness, where victims of violent crimes, or the families of murder victims, can request the state to forgo punishing the criminal. Forgiveness Work shows that in the Iranian justice system, forbearance is as much a right of victims as retribution. Drawing on extended interviews and first-hand observations of more than eighty murder trials, Arzoo Osanloo explores why some families of victims forgive perpetrators and how a wide array of individuals contribute to the fraught business of negotiating reconciliation.Based on Qur’anic principles, Iran’s criminal codes encourage mercy and compel judicial officials to help parties reach a settlement. As no formal regulations exist to guide those involved, an informal cottage industry has grown around forgiveness advocacy. Interested parties—including attorneys, judges, social workers, the families of victims and perpetrators, and even performing artists—intervene in cases, drawing from such sources as scripture, ritual, and art to stir feelings of forgiveness. These actors forge new and sometimes conflicting strategies to secure forbearance, and some aim to reform social attitudes and laws on capital punishment.Forgiveness Work examines how an Islamic victim-centered approach to justice sheds light on the conditions of mercy.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmAuthor: Arzoo OsanlooGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Forgiveness Work
Title: Forgiveness Work
Subtitle: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran
ISBN-10: 069117203X
EAN: 9780691172033
ISBN: 9780691172033
Release Date: 06/23/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Forgiveness Work : Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Islamic Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 25.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Arzoo Osanloo
Item Length: 9.5 in
Subject Area: Law, Social Science
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover