Anti-bribery risk assessment

systematic overview of 153 countries

With CD-ROM. For the global economy, corruption is dangerous. The consequence is economic decay, not development. And that's why corruption demands a truly global response, one that knows no limits on collaboration. (US Attorney General Eric H. Holder at the OECD in May 2010 ...

Money laundering Law and regulation

a practical guide

Auts. Robin Booth...[et al]. Money Laundering Law and Regulation offers a practical and comprehensive guide to domestic anti-money laundering law and regulation, increasingly seen as key weapons in the fight against serious and organized crime. This new book explains the genesis of the current ...

Mafias on the move

the Organized Crime conquers new territories

Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the ...

Drogas

entre el Derecho y el drama

INDICE: Presentación.- Introducción.- Conceptos básicos sobre las drogas.- Clasificación de las drogas.- Estudio histórico de la relación entre las drogas y el derecho.- Historia de las drogas en México.- Las drogas en la actualidad.- El debate en torno a las drogas.- Hacia una propuesta de ...

Los delitos contra la seguridad vial

¿una reforma de ida y vuelta?

En esta obra se analiza, desde la vigencia de los principios limitadores del "ius puniendi", la nueva regulación de los ahora denominados delitos contra la seguridad vial, teniendo en cuenta la última reforma aprobada por la Ley Orgánica 5/2010, de 22 de junio, por ...

The International Criminal Court and national courts

a contentious relationship

This book analyzes the position of the ICC in relation to national court systems. The study illustrates that what seemed to be a straight forward relationship between the ICC and national courts under the complementarity mechanism, proves to be much more complex in practice. Using ...

La persecución de los actos de piratería en las costas somalíes

Coords. Raquel Castillejo Manzanares. El libro trata de aportar al lector una visión multidisciplinar de los problemas que actualmente se presentan en las aguas del índico. Así, se tiene en cuenta la doctrina sentada por la Fiscalía del Tribunal Supremo y la Audiencia Nacional, el ...

Derecho penal de menores

Crimes against humanity

birth of a concept

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the ethical assumptions underpinning it, its legal and philosophical boundaries, and some of the controversies connected with it. A brief historical introduction is followed by an ...

International criminal Law

cases and commentary

Auts. Antonio Cassese...[et al]. International Criminal Law: Cases and Commentary presents a concise and comprehensive explanation of the development of major areas in substantive international criminal law, through a selection of key illustrative cases from domestic and international jurisdictions. The focus is on the ...

The implementation of the European Arrest Warrant in the European Union

Law, policy and practice

This book provides a critical analysis of the principle of mutual recognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters in the EU, through a detailed assessment of its most prominent instrument, the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). It conceptualises and contextualises the lack of clear vision in ...

Sentencing in international criminal Law

the UN ad hoc tribunals and future perspectives for the ICC

This book deals with sentencing in international criminal law, focusing on the approach of the UN ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR). In contrast to sentencing in domestic jurisdictions, and in spite of its growing importance, sentencing law is a ...

La mujer en la cárcel

historia jurídica y políticas penitenciarias en España

La obra ofrece esencialmente un estudio integral de la situación jurídica de la mujer en la cárcel desde una doble perspectiva: la de la Historia jurídica, desde donde se narra la evolución doctrinal y legislativa de las cárceles de mujeres en España desde la Baja ...

Prisioners' rights

principles and practice

This book considers prisoners' rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment and projected future expansion of the prison population, this work is timely. The question of ...

Travels of the criminal question

cultural embeddedness and diffusion

'The criminal question' draws attention to the specific location and constitution of a given field of forces, and the themes, issues, dilemmas and debates that compose it. At the same time it enables connections to be made between these embedded realities and the wider, conceivably ...

La decisión judicial de prisión preventiva

análisis jurídico y criminológico

Estudio criminológico e interdiscipli-nar de la aplicación que están realizando los jueces de la prisión provisional en los últimos años. Sus objetivos se plantean desde una óptica de política criminal para valorar la oportunidad e incidencia de la reforma legislativa del año 2003 en la ...

Justice, crime, and ethics

The contributions in this book examine ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field. Comprehensive coverage is achieved through focus on law enforcement, legal practice, sentencing, corrections, research, crime control policy and philosophical issues. The seventh edition includes ...

Empleo y sexismo

medidas de protección e inserción sociolaboral de las mujeres víctimas de violencia de género en el seno de la pareja

Medidas de protección e inserción sociolaboral de las mujeres víctimas de violencia de género en el seno de la pareja. La naturaleza compleja y poliédrica de la violencia de género, con varias causas y consecuencias, exige, para su eliminación, un tratamiento múltiple del problema, desde ...

The anatomy of fraud and corruption

organizational causes and remedies

This ground-breaking book explores what happens when the fine line between competitive excellence and fraudulent and corrupt practice is crossed. Whilst most fraud literature focuses on the individual perpetrator, "The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption" looks at how organizations as a whole and the people ...

Understanding deviance

a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking

Downes and Rock's popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule- breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms ...