Forgiveness Work : : Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran / / Arzoo Osanloo.
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 cap...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 7 b/w illus. 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration, dates, and names
- Part I. Crimtorts
- 1. Legal Foundations: Victims' Rights and Retribution
- 2. Codifying Mercy: Judicial Reform, Affective Process, and Judge's Knowledge
- 3. Seeking Reconciliation
- 4. Judicial Forbearance Advocacy: Motivations, Potentialities, and the Interstices of Time
- Part II. Lifeworlds
- 5. Forgiveness Sanctioned: Affective Faith in Healing
- 6. Mediating Mercy:
- 7. The Art of Forgiveness
- 8. Cause Lawyers:
- Epilogue. When Mercy Seasons Justice
- Notes
- References
- Index