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Oxford University Press
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[2018]
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xi, 224 pages ; 25 cm
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"In 2003, when Terrence Graham was sixteen, he and three other teens attempted to rob a barbeque restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they left with no money, and no one was seriously injured, Terrence was sentenced to die in prison for his involvement in that crime. As shocking as Terrence's sentence sounds, it is merely a symptom of contemporary American juvenile justice practices. In the United States, adolescents are routinely transferred...
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There was an eerie silence in the packed courtroom as everyone looked towards the foreman of the jury. "Guilty," he pronounced five times. The third most senior Catholic cleric in the world had been found guilty of sex crimes against children, bringing shame to the Church on a scale never seen before in its history. Investigative journalist Lucie Morris-Marr was the first to break the story that Cardinal George Pell was being investigated by the police....
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Over the past fifty years, American criminal justice policy has had a nearly singular focus—the relentless pursuit of punishment. Punishment is intuitive, proactive, logical, and simple. But the problem is that despite all of the appeal, logic, and common sense, punishment doesn't work. The majority of crimes committed in the United States are by people who have been through the criminal justice system before, many on multiple occasions.
There...
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El abuso del derecho penal se expande por América Latina: cada vez más dirigentes políticos del campo popular terminan presos o perseguidos. El lawfare o guerra judicial ocupa un lugar central en las campañas electorales y en las noticias. ¡A esta altura hasta la abuela dibuja de memoria la puerta de Comodoro Py!
Sin embargo, los medios sólo transmiten retazos de información respecto de este fenómeno jurídico-político. Su contenido, significado...
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the pros and cons of Capital Punishment. Several areas in this book are discussed including the misuse of plea bargaining, influence of new media on opinion survey polls, and an explanation of long-term death row inmates using the appeal system after being found guilty by a jury of their peers.
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Improve the well-being of prisoners in detention, enable them to change their behavior and attitudes, develop their ability to live together, learn to respect others and abide by the rules, and thus facilitate their reintegration into society, these are the objectives of a prison sports policy.
There has been growing recognition of the value of sport by the prison system. Its effects are highly beneficial to those in detention and to prison life...
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Améliorer le bien-être des prisonniers en détention, leur permettre de modifier leurs comportements et leurs attitudes, développer leur capacité à vivre ensemble, d'apprendre à respecter les autres et de se conformer aux règles, et faciliter ainsi leur réinsertion dans la société, tels sont les objectifs d'une politique sportive carcérale.
Le sport jouit d'une reconnaissance dans le système pénitentiaire. Ses effets sont tout à fait...
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A provocative and timely exploration of how plea bargaining prevents true criminal justice reform and how we can fix it
When Americans think of the criminal justice system, the image that comes to mind is a trial-a standard courtroom scene with a defendant, attorneys, a judge, and most important, a jury. It's a fair assumption. The right to a trial by jury is enshrined in both the body of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It's supposed...
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COURTHOUSE CONFIDENTIAL
To most people, judges are mysterious creatures. As Anthony Bourdain invited readers to follow him behind the scenes of the restaurant business in his bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, and Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes was a revealing peak into the mysteries of what happens after death inside a mortuary, Inside the Robe shines a bright spotlight into the hidden folds of the judging world. Despite the old saw that...
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Esta obra parte de la profundidad humana del cardenal Carlo María Martini, antiguo arzobispo de Milán, quien inició su magisterio episcopal visitando a los detenidos en las cárceles milanesas. Los autores de este libro, dos buenos conocedores de su pensamiento, presentan algunas de sus ideas sobre esta cuestión siempre acuciante y actual. Así emergen preguntas sobre la dignidad y la recuperación del delincuente que deben ser, en definitiva,...
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¿Es legítimo el castigo penal en sociedades desiguales? El candente tema de la inseguridad se hace patente como problema ineludible para los diversos países de América Latina. Y junto con él aparece el incesante pedido de justicia en la forma de castigo para aquellos que cometen delitos. Sin embargo, en contextos de marcada desigualdad, de altos índices de pobreza, indigencia y exclusión, ¿es posible justificar el castigo penal sobre personas...
12) Vingt ans de justice internationale pénale: Les dossiers de la revue de droit pénal et criminologie
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Un bilan du droit pénal international dressé par des spécialistes juridiques
Vingt ans après la création du Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie, quinze ans après la signature du Statut de la Cour pénale internationale, vingt ans aussi après l'adoption de la première mouture de la loi belge de la compétence universelle (et dix depuis sa modification drastique), le moment a paru venu pour la Revue de dresser un dossier-bilan...
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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
"Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the...
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The New Press
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2023.
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xvi, 347 pages ; 24 cm
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"A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts. The Fear of Too Much Justice offers a timely, trenchant, firsthand critique of our criminal courts and points the way toward a more just future"--
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The Founding Fathers guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution-more than any other right-since juries can serve as the final check on government's power to enforce unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws. But in America today, how independent can a jury be? How much power does a jury have to not only judge a defendant's actions, but the merits of the law? What happens when jurors decide in criminal trials not to enforce the law or not to...
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Former bank manager Ronald Dalton never got to watch his three young children grow up. In 1989, he was convicted for a crime that never happened. His wife, Brenda, was later ruled to have choked to death on breakfast cereal, not strangled as a pathologist had initially claimed. Dalton's daughter, Alison, was in kindergarten when he was charged with second-degree murder in 1988. He attended her high school graduation on June 26, 2000, two days after...
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In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vexing problem of violent crime Although over half the people incarcerated in America today have committed violent offenses, the focus of reformers has been almost entirely on nonviolent and drug offenses. Danielle Sered's brilliant and groundbreaking Until We Reckon steers directly and unapologetically into the...
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This book is based on, an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nita Farahany, Robert O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Nita Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies. This wide-ranging conversation examines the growing impact of modern neuroscience on the law, deepening our understanding of a wide range of issues, from...
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As a punishment for our most serious crime-the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way-the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views. One view says that the state should never execute a criminal no matter what the crime may be. The other view requires execution as justice is sought for the victim. This book considers a third possible view: capital punishment should be judged by its pragmatic value to society. Does the prospect...
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From the author of the classic Race to Incarcerate, a forceful and necessary argument for eliminating life sentences, including profiles of six people directly impacted by life sentences by formerly incarcerated author Kerry Myers Most Western democracies have few or no people serving life sentences, yet here in the United States more than 200,000 people are sentenced to such prison terms.
Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis of The Sentencing Project argue...
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