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El segundo volumen de Derecho Penal de Principios se dedicado al análisis de los principios fundamentales. Constituye una reflexión incisiva y práctica sobre tres principios fundamentales del Derecho Penal: legalidad, proporcionalidad y culpabilidad.
YVAN MONTOYA VIVANCO es Doctor en Derecho penal y Derechos Humanos por la Universidad de Salamanca (España). Es profesor principal en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú donde imparte docencia...
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Criminal justice reform efforts are sweeping the nation, and the damage to society is alarming. These movements have gained traction by the promotion of false narratives and a massive deception placed upon the public. Injustice for All rips away the façade of these reform movements with facts, exposing the disasters of "criminal justice reform." Whereas social justice is inundated with feelings, Surber's book is filled with facts. The men and women...
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Cuando una acción humana daña o lesiona a otros, ¿la única respuesta posible es la punitiva? ¿Existen modos de pensar el problema más allá de las categorías restrictivas de delito y castigo? Este libro se propone como un ambicioso aporte en esta dirección, y lo hace partiendo de una premisa tan original como provocadora: es bueno que las sociedades no se sientan cómodas respecto del castigo, que los ciudadanos lo consideren como un mal antes...
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This book is a practical manual of driving under the influence. What DUI means, how to avoid doing it, how to avoid getting caught if you do it, how to avoid a conviction if you do get caught. Told by one of the nation's leading DUI specialists, with over thirty years of legal experience, this is a book with solid practical advice on every page. Tom Hudson uses clear explanations and easy to understand charts and graphs to explain many of the "unspeakable...
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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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Este artículo analiza la actual situación de precariedad en la que se encuentra el sistema penitenciario brasileño y como consecuencia de la ineficacia de la función resocializadora pluma y una comparación con Argentina. La evolución de la pena y sus especies y teorías. Las precarias condiciones en las que se llevaron, no sólo impiden que la rehabilitación es eficaz, pero también establece ofensa a uno de los principales derechos que la...
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It is easy to get a criminal record. Simply being accused of a crime will lead to police making a record (usually called incident or occurrence report) of the event, even if no charges are laid. And if police do decide to lay charges, which they will do if they have the slightest belief that the person is guilty, fingerprints and photographs are taken. These become a criminal record, even if the charge may not result in conviction, if the person is...
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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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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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El libro, es una juiciosa y amplia compilación de aportes de trece destacados juristas sobre los retos que afronta actualmente la responsabilidad civil, penal y laboral. Los directores de la publicación, el Dr. Billy Escobar Pérez, Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y la Dra. Mónica Lucía Fernández, docente de la Facultad, han organizado un minucioso documento que integra en un conjunto coherente, el aporte de prestigiosos expertos nacionales...
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En este Manual se presenta en forma sintetizada la parte general del Derecho penal, que se dicta en los programas académicos de Derecho.
Se tiene la pretensión de desarrollar en su totalidad todas las materias que lo integran, haciendo el esfuerzo por aprovechar las escasas horas que se dictan en un semestre académico, las cuales, por regla general, resultan insuficientes.
Su exposición resumida, empero, no sacrifica el rigor con el que se deben...
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A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty. Starting from the detailed case study of a single prominent ruling, the authors provide a masterful survey of important issues facing society in the area of animal...
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The intersection of the criminal justice system and a behavioral health crisis is a hard crossroads to navigate. Mental Health Criminal Defense: A Primer is here to teach you the basics so that you, or someone you love, can understand how to use mental health related circumstances to prevail in a criminal case. Mental Health Criminal Defense: A Primer will teach you the terms and proceedings most often seen in mental health related cases, things that...
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In coffee shops, convenience stores, and courthouses across the country, Americans are struggling to agree on why the justice system they have is not the justice system they want. Dramatically different experiences with it frustrate every attempt at a common description of the problem, and the grim consensus that filling prisons and detention centers is almost no one's goal gives no hint to what the solution could be. But recently, analyses such as...
35) Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform
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Plea negotiation is rife with due process concerns, including a heightened risk of coerced pleas, ignoring mens rea, serious questions about assistance of counsel, limited discovery and little litigation of the evidence, the conviction of innocent defendants and significant questions about fairness and equity. Plea negotiation is also the fast track to criminal conviction, tough punishment, and mass incarceration. From the perspective of public policy,...
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El libro documenta un hecho histórico nunca antes revelado en sus detalles: la estrategia que determinó la extradición del expresidente Alberto Fujimori al Perú. El relato se ubica entre los años 2005 y 2006, periodo en que Fujimori abandonó territorio japonés luego de casi cinco años de permanencia, para aterrizar intempestivamente en Chile el 6 de noviembre de 2005.
Al dejar su cómoda residencia en Japón, el entonces prófugo Fujimori...
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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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Get the Summary of Ann Rule's Heart Full of Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Heart Full of Lies" delves into the perplexing murder case that shook the serene "Oregon Alps." In 2000, district attorney Dan Ousley faced a confounding murder in Wallowa County, where undersheriff Rich Stein discovered a body by the Lostine River. Liysa Ann Northon, the wife of the deceased, claimed self-defense against her husband,...
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