Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Criminal Procedure

In a regional, national and global response to terrorism, the emphasis necessarily lies on preventing the next terrorist act. Yet, with prevention comes prediction: the need to identify and detain those considered likely to engage in a terrorist act in the future. The detention of 'suspected terrorists' is intended, therefore, to thwart a potential terrorist act recognising that retrospective action is of no consequence given the severity of terrorist crime. Although preventative steps against those reasonably suspected to have an intention to commit a terrorist act is sound...

Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes nevertheless broadens and enlivens the current debate. First, its scope goes beyond a narrowly-defined notion of crime and includes, for example, essays on religious redemption, the lives of ex-war criminals, and the relationship between ethnicity and desistance from crime....

Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing the right to silence. The right to silence has served as the practical expression of the principles that an individual was to be considered innocent until proven guilty, and that it was for the prosecution to establish guilt. In 1791, the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution proclaimed that none shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself . In more recent times,...

How does a prison achieve institutional order while safeguarding prisoners' rights? Since the early 1960s, prison reform advocates have aggressively used the courts to extend rights and improve life for inmates, while prison administrators have been slow to alter the status quo. Litigated reform has been the most significant force in obtaining change.

An Appeal to Justice is a critical tudy of how the Texas Department of Corrections was transformed by Ruiz v. Estelle, the most sweeping class-action suit in correctional law history. Orders from federal judge...

Like-minded criminal policy practitioners of the time are coming to rely more often on the principle in dubio Prognose in the context of criminal law legislative hyperactivity. Expert based predictions and legal consultants seek to scientifically and procedurally legitimize the criminal justice decisions based thereon not only to the victim but mainly to the general public, which should be and wants to be protected. Following observations on the timeliness and explosiveness of this topic and examination requirements and terminology, the analysis goes on to explore the problems of prognosis...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der Entstehungsgeschichte des Gesetzes uber die internationale Rechtshilfe in Strafsachen (IRG), welches 1983 in Kraft getreten ist. Die Entwicklungen, die dieses Rechtsinstitut sowie andere Rechtshilfeformen durchlaufen haben, darzustellen, macht sich die Arbeit zur Aufgabe.

Im Hinblick auf die aktuelle Entwicklung des Rechtshilferechts versucht die Arbeit daruber hinaus, den Entstehungsprozess des IRG fur Streitfragen wie die Rechtsstellung des Verfolgten und die Dreidimensionalitat des Rechtshilfeverfahrens fruchtbar zu machen.

A counterpoint to the Law and Order justice the public sees and believes in. This is the real criminal justice system, as told from someone inside, someone fights it ever day. This is not a manual for how to get off, how to be a better criminal. It is proof that the system...