Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran

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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 retribution Iran'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 observ

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"Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association"
"Honorable Mention for the Clifford Geertz Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of Religion"
"Honorable Mention for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize in Critical Anthropology"
"The value of Arzoo Osanloos book lies in improving our understanding of the legal system and the nuances of Iranian criminal law. . . . [Osanloo] also makes us ask if we can learn from the Iranian experience, and if mercy and forgiveness could be applied elsewhere. The book is an invitation to grasp such notions and their functionality."---Usman Butt, Middle East Monitor

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Arzoo Osanloo is associate professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice and the director of the Middle East Center at the University of Washington. She is the author of The Politics of Womens Rights in Iran (Princeton).