Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Criminal Law - General

This book describes the results of a six-nation study of how criminal justice agencies in England and Wales, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden have reacted to high crime rates and punitiveness. The book details how various solutions have been adopted, involving diversion of cases from courts, increases in financial penalties imposed by police or prosecutors without full court hearings and the introduction in some countries of "administrative offences."

Community-oriented policing (COP) is the ideology and policy model espoused in the mission statements of nearly all policing forces throughout the world. However, the COP philosophy is interpreted differently by different countries and police forces, resulting in practices that may in fact run far afield of the community-based themes of partnership, responsiveness, and transparency. Community Policing: International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives provides a comprehensive survey of purported practices of COP, clarifying the concept and differentiating true COP from...

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? As surveillance measures are increasingly justified in terms of national security, is there the prospect that a shadow "security state" will emerge? How might new surveillance measures alter the conceptions of citizens and citizenship which are at the...

Die Fallsammlung verdeutlicht die Rechtsanwendung im Bereich des Sanktionenrechts anhand von Klausurfallen, die uberwiegend in Anlehnung an die hochstrichterliche Rechtsprechung entwickelt worden sind. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Fragen der Strafzumessung bei der Geld- und der Freiheitsstrafe, aber auch die Nebenentscheidungen, wie sie insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit der Strafaussetzung zur Bewahrung anstehen, werden behandelt. Die in den theoretischen Vorlesungen oft ungeklarte Frage, wie denn die richtige" Sanktion im Einzelfall tatsachlich zu finden ist, wird in den Musterlosungen...