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In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development...
62) Marijuana Law
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Over a million people in the United States regularly smoke marijuana. Approximately 400,000 defendants each year are charged with the use, possession, sale, or cultivation of marijuana. MARIJUANA LAW describes how people can reduce the probability of arrest and defend themselves from prosecution if arrested. Readers will learn when a police officer can legally stop them; when they can be searched; when they have to be read their rights; what to do...
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En este trabajo se aborda de manera sistemática en sentido estricto el artículo 227 del CP, que criminaliza el incumplimiento de la pensión de alimentos. El impago de este tipo de pensiones, constituye un motivo de litigiosidad frecuente en los juzgados, evidenciando situaciones de necesidad que a veces derivan en graves problemas de subsistencia de los miembros del núcleo familiar.
Se analizan detalladamente los requisitos para que los Juzgados...
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The Criminal Defense Lawyer. Redefined.
Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block's darkest creation. He's the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent-no matter how guilty they may seem. Some even believe themselves to be guilty: they remember pulling the trigger, or wiring the dynamite to their spouse's car, or holding the bloody blade. But things have a way of working...
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Este libro aborda los bienes y su tratamiento por el derecho, centrándose en el marco general, con un enfoque contemporáneo de la nueva teoría institucional, jurídica y principista de las cosas. Analiza la teoría de los derechos reales, pasando por la teoría del objeto de derecho, como todo lo material que implica trascendencia jurídica y que permite la satisfacción de las necesidades de los sujetos.
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Newly elected circuit Superior Court Judge Thompson travels the State of North Carolina from the mountains to the Sandhills. His first year is a baptism of fire: three potential death cases, a first degree murder case, a second degree murder case, and a bizarre rape case in Durham. Trials are for and about people. The victim has or had his or her own life story. The defendant has his. And the family's lives of both are changed forever. And then there...
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EL PRINCIPAL MOTIVO DE ESCRIBIR ESTE LIBRO ES SENCILLAMENTE PARA LLAMAR LA ATENCION DEL AMABLE LECTOR EN CUANTO A LA CRUDA REALIDAD QUE A VIVIDO SIEMPRE NUESTRA AMERICA LATINA A TRAVEZ DE LOS SIGLOS. ES UNA HISTORIA DE SUFRIMIENTO, DE ATRAZO Y ABANDONO EN QUE HEMOS VIVIDO POR CULPA EN PARTE NUESTRA PERO MAS QUE TODO POR INFLUENCIAS Y PRESIONES EXTERIORES QUE NO HEMOS QUERIDO O NO HEMOS SABIDO RECHAZAR. ESTE LIBRO PUES, ES UNA MIRADA GENERAL A TRAVEZ...
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Todo el mundo parece estar de acuerdo en que la civilización occidental tiene problemas. Pero nadie está de acuerdo en sus causas, y en sus soluciones. ¿Estamos demasiado gobernados, o tal vez habría que simplificarlo todo? ¿Sobra capitalismo, o más bien al contrario? ¿Tenemos demasiada libertad sexual, o demasiado poca? ¿Y si el problema es más hondo y afecta precisamente a nuestros cimientos, como seres humanos en relación con Dios?
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An examination of the forces and events that led to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history
Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, organized crime grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services and by obtaining control...
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Des spécialistes du droit pénal se sont rassemblés pour traiter, dans un langage dépourvu de technicité juridique, les principales thématiques ayant trait au droit pénal et ce, tant du point de vue de l'organisation de la justice pénale que des questions qui lui sont soumises.
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- Les homicides et coups et blessures involontaires;
- La protection de la jeunesse;
- Les infractions terroristes, thème éminemment d'actualité;
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Fighting any false criminal allegation can cost a person potentially their life savings, reputation in the community, loss of friends, family, their career and ultimately their loss of freedom. From the time a criminal charge is laid, the process can last more than two years before a courts verdict is handed down. Witnesses and what they disclose to police can impact the final outcome of any investigation. If the information is considered deceptive...
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A compilation of pertinent and updated "black letter" laws that are part of the official Philippine bar examination coverage and corresponding sections of laws that have been subject of previous bar examination questions. There are also certain important laws which, while not expressly included in the exam coverage, are not specifically excluded either. The Anvil Law Books series is the result of the authors' aim to help bar hopefuls in their journey...
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The Ultimate Deception is a true story of a father, who struggled with the justice system in a custody battle for his children. The mother of his children at times tried to stab herself in the abdomen, while pregnant with each child but was prevented to do so by this father. His children cried out to the authorities and to him to free them from an abusive home with their mother and step father. The court system chose not to believe this father or...
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El sistema penitenciario en Colombia en particular, y el sistema jurídico en general, son considerados por legos y expertos como claros ejemplos del divorcio entre lo que dice el papel y lo que se constata en la práctica. A partir de esta historia inédita del surgimiento de instituciones tales como la pena de prisión, el ejercito permanente, la policía, las leyes de orden público y el banco nacional, el autor identifica la estructura de los...
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With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science-it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question...
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La loi du 27 juin 2018 portant réforme du droit du divorce est venue chambarder un système qui, à l'exception de quelques modifications, était deux fois centenaire.
La loi est truffée de textes épars qui modifient tantt le Nouveau Code de procédure civile, tantt les Codes civil, pénal, de la sécurité sociale et du travail.
Cet ouvrage propose une analyse concise ainsi que des commentaires avisés sur les nombreux changements occasionnés...
78) Civil Case Law
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Civil case law is simply the accumulated law of a region or territory that has been amassed by rulings by the presiding courts. Each region of the country has a hierarchy of courts with the decisions made by the more senior courts being the guiding law to the lower courts. Civil case law is different than regulatory law which are laws enacted by a legislative body. A chart on the hierarchy of civil case law in a region would be beneficial to one seeking...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 I loved working at the butcher's shop as a young girl. I learned about tendons and blood vessels, how to remove the confluence of structures at the hilum of the kidney, and how to open the joint between two bones to reveal the glassy, viscous fluid of the synovial joint space.
#2 The first experience of a dissecting room is intimidating for everyone. It is a reminder that everyone...
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Daniel Baum's guides to Canadian law have become essential legal guides for topics ranging from young offenders to first responders. Whether for law professionals of citizens who need to understand their legal rights, the books of the Understanding Canadian Law series are indispensable. Now, the first three instalments of the series are available in an ebook-exclusive bundle. Includes Youth and the Law What's the law? What does it mean? If the law...
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