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Introduction Part I: The Challenge of 'Life' in the Americas 1. The Impact of Life Imprisonment on Criminal Justice Reform in the United States 2. Life Imprisonment in Latin America Part II: Life without Parole around the World 3. Life without Parole in Australia: Current Practices, Juvenile and Retrospective Sentencing 4. Life Imprisonment and Human Rights in Uganda 5. A New Form of Life Imprisonment for India? 6. An Administrative Procedure for Life Prisoners: Law and Practice of Royal Pardon in the Netherlands 7. Constitutionalising Life Imprisonment without Parole: The Case of Hungary 8. A Right to Hope? Life Imprisonment in France Part III: Life Imprisonment and the European Convention of Human Rights 9. The Paradox of Reform: Life Imprisonment in England and Wales 10. Life Imprisonment in Belgium: Current Human Rights Challenges 11. Confusingly Compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights: The Release of Life Sentence Prisoners in Ireland Part IV: Countries without Life Imprisonment 12. Punishment in Portuguese Criminal Law: A Penal System without Life Imprisonment 13. The Abolition of Life Imprisonment in Brazil and its Contradictions 14. Long-term Imprisonment in Latin America Part V: The (Re)introduction of Life Imprisonment 15. Life and Long-Term Imprisonment in the Countries of the Former Yugoslavia 16. The Right to Hope for Lifers: An Analysis of Court Judgments and Practice in Poland 17. Long-Term and Life Imprisonment in Spain: Release Procedures and Terrorism Part VI: Life Imprisonment and Preventive Detention 18. Constitutional Limits on Life Imprisonment and Post-Sentence Preventive Detention in Germany 19. Life without Parole for Preventive Reasons? Lifelong Post-sentence Detention in Switzerland 20. Life Imprisonment and Related Institutions in the Nordic Countries