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There was an eerie silence in the packed courtroom as everyone looked towards the foreman of the jury. "Guilty," he pronounced five times. The third most senior Catholic cleric in the world had been found guilty of sex crimes against children, bringing shame to the Church on a scale never seen before in its history. Investigative journalist Lucie Morris-Marr was the first to break the story that Cardinal George Pell was being investigated by the police....
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the pros and cons of Capital Punishment. Several areas in this book are discussed including the misuse of plea bargaining, influence of new media on opinion survey polls, and an explanation of long-term death row inmates using the appeal system after being found guilty by a jury of their peers.
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El abuso del derecho penal se expande por América Latina: cada vez más dirigentes políticos del campo popular terminan presos o perseguidos. El lawfare o guerra judicial ocupa un lugar central en las campañas electorales y en las noticias. ¡A esta altura hasta la abuela dibuja de memoria la puerta de Comodoro Py!
Sin embargo, los medios sólo transmiten retazos de información respecto de este fenómeno jurídico-político. Su contenido, significado...
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Over the past fifty years, American criminal justice policy has had a nearly singular focus—the relentless pursuit of punishment. Punishment is intuitive, proactive, logical, and simple. But the problem is that despite all of the appeal, logic, and common sense, punishment doesn't work. The majority of crimes committed in the United States are by people who have been through the criminal justice system before, many on multiple occasions.
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A provocative and timely exploration of how plea bargaining prevents true criminal justice reform and how we can fix it
When Americans think of the criminal justice system, the image that comes to mind is a trial-a standard courtroom scene with a defendant, attorneys, a judge, and most important, a jury. It's a fair assumption. The right to a trial by jury is enshrined in both the body of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It's supposed...
6) Vingt ans de justice internationale pénale: Les dossiers de la revue de droit pénal et criminologie
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Un bilan du droit pénal international dressé par des spécialistes juridiques
Vingt ans après la création du Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie, quinze ans après la signature du Statut de la Cour pénale internationale, vingt ans aussi après l'adoption de la première mouture de la loi belge de la compétence universelle (et dix depuis sa modification drastique), le moment a paru venu pour la Revue de dresser un dossier-bilan...
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¿Es legítimo el castigo penal en sociedades desiguales? El candente tema de la inseguridad se hace patente como problema ineludible para los diversos países de América Latina. Y junto con él aparece el incesante pedido de justicia en la forma de castigo para aquellos que cometen delitos. Sin embargo, en contextos de marcada desigualdad, de altos índices de pobreza, indigencia y exclusión, ¿es posible justificar el castigo penal sobre personas...
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Esta obra parte de la profundidad humana del cardenal Carlo María Martini, antiguo arzobispo de Milán, quien inició su magisterio episcopal visitando a los detenidos en las cárceles milanesas. Los autores de este libro, dos buenos conocedores de su pensamiento, presentan algunas de sus ideas sobre esta cuestión siempre acuciante y actual. Así emergen preguntas sobre la dignidad y la recuperación del delincuente que deben ser, en definitiva,...
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COURTHOUSE CONFIDENTIAL
To most people, judges are mysterious creatures. As Anthony Bourdain invited readers to follow him behind the scenes of the restaurant business in his bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, and Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes was a revealing peak into the mysteries of what happens after death inside a mortuary, Inside the Robe shines a bright spotlight into the hidden folds of the judging world. Despite the old saw that...
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The victim impact statement is an indispensable tool that helps hold the offender accountable for the consequences of a crime. It gives the judge the rest of the story, the part that doesn't appear in police reports or courtroom evidence, and connects vital pieces of information to emotions in a way people can relate to.
Although difficult and painful, writing an impact statement is a critical opportunity to articulate the emotional aftermath of...
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As a punishment for our most serious crime-the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way-the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views. One view says that the state should never execute a criminal no matter what the crime may be. The other view requires execution as justice is sought for the victim. This book considers a third possible view: capital punishment should be judged by its pragmatic value to society. Does the prospect...
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The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men's incarceration. Despite these numbers, incarcerated women, and women lifers specifically, represent a relatively small percentage of the overall correctional and lifer populations. As such, women lifers are easy to overlook, discount, and diminish as such a small group. Many women lifers perceive themselves as a forgotten...
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Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre la cybercriminalité.
Qu'est-ce que la cybercriminalité ? Comment est né et a évolué ce phénomène ? Comment le droit l'appréhende-t-il ? Quelles sont les méthodes mises en place afin d'y répondre efficacement ? Quels sont les risques liés à l'utilisation des moyens informatiques pour les entreprises ?
Ces questions, et tant d'autres, ont amené les auteurs, tous deux...
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Mandat d'arrêt, mandat d'arrêt européen, mandat d'arrêt international, notice rouge, extradition, autant de termes juridiques dont tout le monde a plus ou moins entendu parler sans savoir exactement ce qu'ils recouvrent. Ces expressions correspondent en réalité à des procédures pénales complexes qui ont tendance à effrayer les justiciables mais aussi les praticiens du droit, plus encore lorsqu'il s'agit de réagir dans l'urgence. Se poser...
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This book is based on, an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nita Farahany, Robert O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Nita Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies. This wide-ranging conversation examines the growing impact of modern neuroscience on the law, deepening our understanding of a wide range of issues, from...
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From the author of the classic Race to Incarcerate, a forceful and necessary argument for eliminating life sentences, including profiles of six people directly impacted by life sentences by formerly incarcerated author Kerry Myers Most Western democracies have few or no people serving life sentences, yet here in the United States more than 200,000 people are sentenced to such prison terms.
Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis of The Sentencing Project argue...
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In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vexing problem of violent crime Although over half the people incarcerated in America today have committed violent offenses, the focus of reformers has been almost entirely on nonviolent and drug offenses. Danielle Sered's brilliant and groundbreaking Until We Reckon steers directly and unapologetically into the...
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The prison system in the U.S. is in crisis. We have far too many prisoners and spend far too much on housing them and building more prisons. We have far too harsh penalties for less serious nonviolent crimes, so we are unnecessarily incarcerating people who could be productive citizens, and destroying families in the process.
In THE COSTLY U.S. PRISON SYSTEM: TOO COSTLY IN TERMS OF DOLLARS, NATIONAL PRESTIGE AND LIVES, author Paul Brakke provides...
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Meet the larger-than-life characters from Nova Scotia's past who broke the law, as well as the mold. Jack Randell, skipper of a Lunenburg-based rum-running schooner, sparked a diplomatic row in 1929 when he tried to outrun the United States Coast Guard. Henry More Smith was a nineteenth-century thief so brazen that he swiped law books from the office of a Halifax judge, then returned them to collect a reward. Samuel Herbert Dougal was a monster who...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Julian Roberts, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford. Julian Roberts is an international expert on sentencing throughout the common-law world and is strongly involved in connecting scholars with practitioners as well as promoting greater public understanding of sentencing. This thought-provoking conversation covers a wide range of topics related to criminal...
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