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Death by Prison
"In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine part of contemporary US criminal justice, even engrained in the nation's cultural imaginary, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisoning a person until death was an extraordinary sentence; today, it accounts for an increasing percentage of all US prisoners. What explains the shifts in penal practice and the social imagination by which we have become accustomed to impr...
Life Imprisonment
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment. Life Imprisonment explores this trend through systemati...
Histories of Transnational Criminal Law
This book provides an account of the origins of transnational criminal law. The volume examines a range of topics, beginning with normative, intellectual, and institutional histories. It discusses specific transnational crimes ranging from piracy to cybercrime, and scrutinises jurisdiction, modes of liability, and the place of the individual.
Life Imprisonment and Human Rights
In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human rights.
Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction
In Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction, Mark Chadwick relates a colourful account of how and why piracy on the high seas came to be considered an international crime subject to the principle of universal jurisdiction, prosecutable by any State in any circumstances.
The Meaning of Life
"I can think of no authors more qualified to research the complex impact of life sentences than Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis. They have the expertise to track down the information that all citizens need to know and the skills to translate that research into accessible and powerful prose." —Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the Water 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 St...
Tratamiento jurídico-penal del acoso en España
En España, en los últimos años se ha avanzado notablemente en la criminalización de distintas modalidades de conductas de hostigamiento. El Código penal español hoy cuenta con diversos preceptos que califican como delictivas diversas formas de acoso en varios de sus Títulos, como delitos contra la libertad, la integridad moral y la libertad sexual. En este libro, compuesto por nueve capítulos, el lector encontrará un estudio desde una perspectiva dogmática -y en menor medida político criminal- sobre las características de los distintos tipos penales que recogen y sancionan comportamientos de acoso. El acoso predatorio (stalking), el acoso en torno a la interrupción voluntaria de...
Curso de Derecho Penal
La publicación del Curso de Derecho Penal, Parte General, tuvo desde su origen la vocación de transmitir a los alumnos, de manera pedagógica, las bases conceptuales del Derecho penal del Estado de Derecho a partir de los principios constitucionales, que cobran en este ámbito una especial relevancia. Las sucesivas y numerosas reformas producidas en nuestro Código penal desde el año 1995 nos obligan a hacer una revisión rigurosa de nuestra obra, incluyendo las principales novedades que establece la reforma operada por la LO 1/2015, de 30 de marzo. En ella se introducen cambios muy relevantes como el establecimiento de la cadena perpetua, llamada con cierto eufemismo "prisión permanente...
Recursos humanos en investigación y desarrollo. Universidades y CSIC
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