To ensure a fair criminal trial, effective sentencing advocacy is needed in every stage of prosecution, from investigation through plea, trial and sentencing hearings.
Sex offenders remain the most hated group of offenders, subject to a myriad of regulations and punishments beyond imprisonment, including sex offender registries, chemical and surgical castration, and global positioning electronic monitoring systems.
Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration.
This book employs a transitional justice lens to address the 'disappearances' that occurred during the Northern Ireland conflict - or 'Troubles' - and the post-conflict response to these 'disappearances.
Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.
No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence.
This book examines the rules and mechanisms of international law relevant to the suppression of state organized crime, and provides a normative justification for developing international legal mechanisms specifically designed to address this phenomenon.
Drawing on qualitative research conducted with young people in New York, this volume highlights the unique experiences of children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and counters deficit-based narratives to consider how young people's voices can inform and improve educational support services.
La presente obra estudia la siempre polémica fenomenología de las sectas desde la ciencia del Derecho penal en un intento de tratamiento global, sin desdeñar los enfoques filosóficos, psicológicos, psiquiátricos, sociológicos y criminológicos.
The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students.
This book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked, spoken about, or for.
In this book, leading international practitioners and scholars offer a unique defense perspective on the proper administration of international criminal justice.
Empowering ethical codes is vital in all branches of law because without these codes, we would be unable to differentiate between right and wrong in our personal judgments.
This book offers a new way of understanding the role of the mediator in teaching parties the interrelationship between sustainable peace, forgiveness, and international justice.
Die Fachtage "Familienorientierung im Strafvollzug" an der Hochschule Merseburg 2017 und 2018 hatten zum Ziel, AkteurInnen aus den Bereichen der Justiz, der Freien Straffälligenhilfe, aber auch andere professionell Handelnde, in einen moderierten Prozess des Austauschs über eine stärkere Orientierung des Vollzuges an den Bedarfen von Familien zu bringen.
A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldIn 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake.
Esta compilación de nueve capítulos de investigación sobre los espacios de encierro, detención, castigo y trabajo penado en la historia de Colombia ofrece una mirada de larguísima duración en nuestro territorio, desde las primeras fundaciones de Tierra Firme, pasando por el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, hasta la República de Colombia en el siglo XX.
La superación del pasado en la jurisprudencia y en la doctrina alemana de los últimos cincuenta años; La superación del pasado en la experiencia comparada y la singularidad del caso alemán; consideraciones conclusivas.
Introducción; Condiciones sociales y ejecución penal en la baja edad media; Mercantilismo y surguimiento de la pena de prisión; Cambios en las formas de la pena; La época del iluminismo; Desarrollo de la teoría y el derecho penal; La revolución industrial: consecuencias en la política social y penal; Abolición de la pena de deportación; El fracaso del aislamiento celular; La reforma carcelaría moderna y su límites; La función pública de la pena pecuniaria en la práctica penal reciente; Nuevas tendencias en la política penal durante el período fascista; Política penal y cifras de la criminalidad; Epílogo a la edición castellana.
As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he did not commit.
Son temas a los que el jurista debe prestar constante atención; de no hacerlo, quedaría atrapado en una ley procesal, cuyas normas en este ámbito tienen su origen en el siglo decimonónico.
Tiene declarado la Sala Segunda del Tribunal Supremo que el derecho a la prueba se configura como un derecho fundamental y es inseparable del mismo derecho de defensa, pero no es ilimitado como ningún otro lo es.
Las bases fundamentales del derecho penal: Concepto y contenido del derecho penal; Norma penal y sistema jurídico penal; De la pena y sus teorías explicativas.
Los fundamentos de este libro fueron escritos y difundidos en 1992, hace ya veintisiete años, con el título de "Delitos contra el patrimonio económico privado".
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