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Mientras que las sociedades son cada vez más multiculturales, la población de las cárceles continúa siendo notoriamente homogénea. ¿Cómo entender este desajuste? Más que atribuirlo a una supuesta tendencia natural al delito entre los sectores más vulnerables, cabe pensar que la ley penal aplica un sesgo sistemático y discriminatorio y que, al hacerlo, protege un orden injusto. Como lo que está en juego aquí es el uso del aparato coercitivo...
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Este primer volumen de Derecho Penal de Principios, se analiza la función punitiva del Estado en el marco del respeto de parámetros interpretativos y de bienes jurídicos tutelados.
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 en los cursos de Derecho penal a nivel de pregrado y posgrado....
23) Problemas actuales de derecho penal económico, responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas, c
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"Los avances y transformaciones geopolíticos, económicos, tecnológicos, industriales y financieros de las sociedades contemporáneas se han ido desarrollando paralelamente con diversas modalidades delictivas que cada vez son más sofisticadas y complejas, lo que ha puesto a prueba la eficacia de los Estados para comprender los fenómenos criminales, prevenirlos, combatirlos y gestionarlos.
Procesos corruptos con alcance transnacional, como el soborno...
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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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The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of more than thirty thousand Dominicans from the United States, with little protest or even notice from the public. Since these deportees return to the country of their origin, many Americans assume repatriation will be easy and the emotional and financial hardships will be few, but in fact the opposite is true. Deportees suffer greatly when they are torn from...
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Este es un libro breve que busca exponer de manera asequible y con lenguaje sencillo los contenidos fundamentales del derecho penal: ley penal y teoría del delito. Ofrece al lector conocimientos básicos en la materia, pero especialmente recuerda que el ejercicio del poder penal debe respetar en forma irrestricta a la persona humana en todas sus manifestaciones, como se expresa en la parte dedicada a los límites al poder penal.
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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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"The Hemp Handbook: Understanding the Laws of Hemp, CBD, and Marijuana" is an enlightening guide penned by renowned attorney Mark Nicholson. With his legal experience, Nicholson navigates the complex landscape of laws governing hemp, CBD, and marijuana.
The book serves as a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding the intricacies of the rapidly evolving cannabis industry. From growers and consumers to entrepreneurs and investors, Nicholson's...
29) In The Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article "The Aims of the Criminal Law"
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America's criminal codes are so voluminous that they now bewilder not only the average citizen but also the average lawyer. Our courthouses are so clogged that there is no longer adequate time for trials. And our penitentiaries are overflowing with prisoners. In fact, America now has the highest per capita prison population in the world. This situation has many people wondering whether the American criminal justice system has become dysfunctional....
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Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity-criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the 1990s. Since then it has...
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This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action. Hepburn and Simon recount the lives...
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The author of “Ill-Gotten Gains” uses philosophy and psychology to examine how human behavior can be questioned under criminal law.
Henri plans a trek through the desert. Alphonse, intending to kill Henri, puts poison into his canteen. Gaston also intends to kill Henri but has no idea what Alphonse has been up to. He puncture's Henri's canteen, and Henri dies of thirst. Who has caused Henri's death? Was it Alphonse? Gaston? Or neither?
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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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An Easy to Understand, Entertaining, and Critically Important Read
The #1 guide for understanding, when using force to protect yourself is legal.
Carry with confidence, knowing you are protected from predators AND predatory prosecutors
Correct the common myths you may think are true, but get people in trouble
Many interesting, if sometimes heart-wrenching, true-life examples
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¿Cómo se llega a ser juez? ¿Son los jueces tal y como creemos? ¿Les afecta personalmente el impacto de sus decisiones en la vida de los ciudadanos? ¿Hasta qué punto están politizados? ¿Quién juzga a los jueces? ¿Mandan los jueces en los juzgados? ¿Existe realmente una justicia patriarcal en nuestro país?
La magistrada Natalia Velilla responde a estas y otras muchas preguntas en Así funciona la Justicia , donde narra con todo detalle la...
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Criminal Law: A Primer is a companion to those going through criminal prosecutions. This book will explain each step of the criminal process, and help you to understand what is happening so you can feel confident throughout the journey. Chapters walk you through your rights, how to navigate contact with police, what mitigation might help you, and what the trial and appeals process is like. Also included are some games to keep you busy at court and...
37) Injustice by Law
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Being a colored woman living in public housing, I dealt with the dilemmas of injustice from the law. I became a victim from my abuser, only to be victimize by the Department of Children Services. I was fighting against all odds in order to get my daughters back home. I didn't get a chance to heal from my kidnapping and abuse. I had no help from the police department in the beginning of my disappearance. My family begged for help from the law but was...
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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...
40) 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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