Public international law: criminal law

Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses provides a unique examination of Islamic State's online activity at the peak of its "e;golden age"e; between 2014 and 2017 and evaluates some of the principal responses to this phenomenon.

Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts.

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member.

Critically explores the International Criminal Court''s evolution and the domestic effects of its interventions in three African countries.

How does justice for non-citizens look like?

Mass incarceration has been an ongoing problem in the United States.

This book addresses the conceptual and evidentiary issues relating to the treatment of propaganda in international criminal law.

This work deals with the exclusion of illicitly obtained evidence at the International Criminal Court.

This book engages with different aspects of India's practice of international law.

Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment.

This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice.

This book addresses the effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms for repairing social cohesion.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Norwegian Correctional Service and the values and principles underlying its operations, using the renowned Halden Prison as a case study.

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.

What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong, or that torture can sometimes be morally justified?

Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier magistrates' courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise the system and speed up case processing.

This book is an attempt to approach the issue of defining international terrorism, proposing that the most workable way to do so is to achieve due balance between the two principal driving forces of international law developments: State sovereignty interests and cosmopolitan ideals.

The yearning for historical justice - that is, for the redress of past wrongs - has become one of the defining features of our age.

If a defendant is on trial for a crime such as burglary, to what extent should the fact that he has a previous conviction for burglary feature in his trial?

Why is punishment not more effective?

Despite the growth in international criminal courts and tribunals, the majority of cases concerning international criminal law are prosecuted at the domestic level.

European criminal law faces many challenges in harmonising states'' criminal justice systems.

This book offers a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the criminal justice sector and beyond, exploring the key organisations and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.

The number of non-state actors, in the past not accountable for committing international crimes or violating human rights, is proliferating rapidly.

Alternative Criminologies celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges.

"Reinserción y prisión" nace en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación "La reforma penitenciaria: necesidades del sistema y modelo de ejecución penal" (PGC2018-096093-B-100), cuyo investigador principal es el Catedrático de Derecho Penal de la Universidad de Valladolid el Dr.

This book examines the concept of individual criminal responsibility for serious violations of international law, i.

First published in 1981.

This multi-disciplinary and inclusive collection brings together theoretically informed and empirically focused research on sex, intimacy and reproduction in relation to young people and adults with life-shortening conditions.

La cuestión criminal; Criminología crítica y derecho penal; Política criminal y derecho penal; Revisión crítica del derecho penal parte general; Pena y estado; Estado actual de la teoría de la pena; Del estado actual de la teoría del injusto; Consideraciones en torno a lo injusto; Política criminal e injusto; Los bienes jurídicos colectivos; Significación social y tipicidad; Política criminal y dolo eventual; El injusto personal: primer nivel del principio de culpabilidad; La imputabilidad en un estado de derecho; Castigo o impunidad de la tentativa inidónea: Un falso dilema; Los delitos de peligro; El tratamiento del error en la reforma de 1983; La extinción de la responsabilidad criminal; Legislación extranjera: constitución y reforma penal en España; El delito de práctica ilegal de la detención por parte del funcionario público; El delito de desaparecimiento forzado de personas como crimen contra la humanidad y las medidas internacionales preventivas; Revisión crítica de las instituciones de control penal; Pena privativa de libertad y política criminal: Los establecimientos de máxima seguridad; Derechos de la persona reconocidos por las leyes y fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad del estado; Las funciones de la policía y la libertad y seguridad de los ciudadanos; Control social y sistema penal en Latinoamérica; Violencia y dominación en Latinoamérica: Un modelo internacional a des-armar; Criminología crítica y derecho penal latinoamericano; Consideraciones respecto a la estructura del delito en la reforma penal latinoamericana; Aspectos político-criminales del derecho penal de la circulación en Latinoamérica; Estado de derecho y justicia criminal en chile 1973 - 1979; El delito de estupro en el código penal hondureño.

This book provides a detailed exploration of the responses of the criminal justice system to domestic abuse in Northern Ireland.

Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation implemented or planned.

This book examines how international law prohibits state and individual complicity.

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally.

This work compiles experiences and lessons learned in meeting the unique needs of women and children regarding crime prevention and criminal justice, in particular the treatment and social reintegration of offenders and serves as a cross-disciplinary work for academic and policy-making analyses and follow-up in developing and developed countries.

After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy examines the effects of transitional justice on the development of peace and democracy.

Exploring how practitioners make use of play's developmental benefits and therapeutic healing properties to aid the child's healthcare journey, this reflective book expands and enhances the knowledge base underlying the practice of play in hospitals.

Notoriously difficult to access, armed robbers have mostly eluded the attempts of authors to access their lives.

This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and elucidates the three foundational aspects of its jurisdiction as laid out in the Rome Statute: the preconditions for exercising jurisdiction (Article 12 ICCRSt), its substantive competence regarding core crimes (Articles 5-8bis ICCRSt), and the principle of complementarity (Article 171(a) ICCRSt).

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

This edited collection provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, and how they can be used in criminal proceedings.

This is the definitive commentary on the crime of aggression over two volumes, including the first analysis of its history, theory, legal interpretation and future.

A practical guide to what motivates international crimes and how these are structured and investigated in theory and practice.

Rural Victims of Crime offers a pioneering sustained assessment of 'the rural victim'.

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons.

The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked.

This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946.