The power to criminalize

Criminología

Esta obra de Maurice Parmelee es fruto de varios años de experiencias del autor con delincuentes en los Tribunales y prisiones de Estados Unidos y de investigaciones criminológicas en Europa; y plantea el estudio de los dos mayores males sociales: pobreza y delito.

Rechtfertigung und Opferverhalten

In seiner hier veröffentlichten Tübinger Habilitationsschrift unternimmt der Autor den Versuch, Erklärungsansätze für das dogmatische Erscheinungsbild der Rechtfertigungsgründe im Strafrecht durch eine opfergerichtete Betrachtung zu entwickeln. Inspiriert wurde dieses Unterfangen durch die in den 80er Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts in der Strafrechtswissenschaft aufgeblühte, aber niemals ...

Understanding criminal justice

sociological perspectives

The book is an invaluable resource seeking to understand contemporary research and debate on the law, policing, court processes and punishment. I introduces the theorical resources used to conceptualise social control institutions in our society. Particular attention is paid to the historical, cultural and political ...

La relación seguridad-inseguridad en centros urbanos de Europa y América Latina

estrategias, políticas, actores, perspectivas y resultados

Criminología y sistema penal

(compilación in memoriam)

Hard lessons

reflections on governance and crime control in late modernity

The essays in this book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances "where things go wrong" in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws, policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind, drawing attention to the ...

The logic of consent

the diversity and deceptiveness of consent as a defense to criminal conduct

The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them. Peter Westen skillfully argues that the conceptual aspect accounts for a significant number ...

The mother of all crimes

Human Rights, criminalization and the child born alive

This book considers the appropriate response of the criminal law with regard to women whose acts or omissions in pregnancy cause the death or injury of the child born alive. It compares recent developments in English law in the light of the Human Rights Act ...

Una sensata cantidad de delito

Los actos deplorables existen, pero, ¿existe el delito? Si así fuera, ¿ cuánto delito sería suficiente o demasiado? El delito no es un concepto estático o fijo, y cuáles acciones son consideradas delictivas varían históricamente y de una sociedad a otra. Cualquier acción podría ser definida ...

Conflicto, violencia y criminalidad en Europa y América

IV Jornadas de Estudios Históricos del Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 11 al 13 de noviembre de 2002)

Drug wars

the political economy of narcotics

Table of Contents Pt. I Opium 1 The globe in an opium bowl : the opium wars and British empire in Asia 2 Strange bedfellows : opium and the political economy of sexuality Pt. II Marijuana 3 Anarchy in the USA : the Mexican revolution, labor radicalism, and ...

El delincuente español

Hampa y lenguaje

La principal aportación de Rafael Salillas a la sociología criminal "El delincuente español" constaba de dos tomos: "El Lenguaje" (1896) y "Hampa" (1898). En esta edición, se ha optado por una selección de fragmentos de ambos. En la obra, el autor se propone elaborar una ...

Criminologia

il contributo della ricerca alla conoscenza del crimine e della reazione sociale : Volume II

Il volume è dedicato all'approfondimento di una serie di temi e di contenuti particolarmente rilevanti per la criminologia. Dopo un primo capitolo che fa il punto sulla metodologia, il volume affronta due argomenti centrali per lo studio dell'individuo deviante, come quelli delle carriere ...

The costs of crime and justice

A must-read for anyone involved in public policy, this book consolidates the diverse research in this area but also makes one of the most valuable contributions to date to the study of the economics of criminal behavior.

La muerte violenta

inspección ocular y cuerpo del delito: las decisivas primeras 24 horas

En la investigación de los crímenes "el tiempo que pasa es la verdad que huye". Esta expresión, que bien podría atribuirse al famoso detective Sher lock Holmes, debe ser tomada como divisa por todos los que tienen que pro curar el descubrimiento de los hechos ...

Repair or revenge

victims and restorative justice

This book addresses the role of victims in our criminal justice system and the shortcomings they perceive in the way they are treated. It examines whether restorative justice can offer them more justice than they receive from the formal court-based system. Research into the shortcomings ...

Theory justice and social change

theoretical integrations and critical aplications

Throughout history, social and intellectual crises have given rise to compelling suggestions for reform steeped in various progressive sensibilities. For example, within the discipline of criminology -- particularly during the 1980's and 1990's -- a number of unconventional theoretical perspectives emerged that sought to challenge ...

Accountability in restorative justice

In reviving the idea of an informal approach to conflict resolution, the restorative justice movement attempts to break out of the freedom punitive thinking which shapes modern criminal justice. Its proponents claim that its guiding ideals - personalism, participation, and reintegration - deliver a fairer, more effective ...

Excusing crime

When should someone who may have intentionally or knowingly committed criminal wrongdoing be excused? Excusing Crime examines what excusing conditions are, and why familiar excuses, such as duress, are thought to fulfil those conditions. The 'classical' view of excuses sees them as rational defects (such ...