Forgiveness Work (eBook)

Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran

Arzoo Osanloo (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20153-5 (ISBN)

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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 sentencesaccording 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 partiesincluding attorneys, judges, social workers, the families of victims and perpetrators, and even performing artistsintervene 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus. 3 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Accountability • activism • Adjudication • Admonition • adultery • Advocacy • affair • affective faith in healing • Affidavit • Amnesty International • Anthropology of law • attempt • bakhshesh • By-law • Capital punishment • Chief judge • Codification (law) • codifying mercy • comparative law • Conciliation • Conflict Resolution • consent • Consideration • Courtroom • Crime • Crime and Punishment • criminal code • criminal court procedure • Criminal Defense Lawyer • criminal justice • Criminal Law • criminal legal studies • Criminal Procedure • damages • data anonymization • Death Penalty • Death Row • defendant • Defense of infancy • Deterrence (legal) • Discretion • evocation • Explanation • Eye for an Eye • family honor • Forgiveness • forgiveness activists • gender and law • Generosity • Governance • gozasht • Grief • Guideline • His Family • Hudud • humanitarianism • Imprisonment • indictment • Intention (criminal law) • Interrogation • Iranian penal code • Iranian Studies • Islam • Islamic criminal justice • Islamic Law • Islamic political debate • I Wish (manhwa) • Judicial reform • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jurist • lawyer • Legal code (municipal) • Legal Practice • legal process • Legislator • mercy advocates • Middle East gender and law • Middle East law and society • Middle East studies • Mourning • Mrs. • Murder • Nasrin Sotoudeh • Negotiation • New Laws • newspaper • Peace studies • Physician • piety • plaintiff • plea • Politics • Prison Officer • Procedural law • Prosecutor • psychologist • Publication • punishment • qisas • Qur’an • Religion • Religious Studies • Remorse • Reprieve (organisation) • Restorative Justice • result • Retributive Justice • Reyhaneh Jabbari • Sanctions (law) • Self-defense (Sweden) • sensibility • Sentence (law) • Shame • Sharia • spouse • Standing (law) • State law (United States) • Subjectivity • Substantive Law • Suffering • Suggestion • Suspect • Tort • University of Washington • Victims’ Rights • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20153-6 / 0691201536
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20153-5 / 9780691201535