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The criminal justice system of the Netherlands offers an introduction to our fascinating legal system from a criminal law angle. It is recommended to students taking an introductory course on Dutch criminal law or on comparative criminal law and is also an excellent starting point for foreign researchers who wish to explore the Dutch criminal law system.
This extensive work contains no fewer than around one hundred and fifty instruments, either on human rights or relevant to human rights protection. The volume offers a practical and extensive compilation of important human rights documents, suitable for students, academics, legal practitioners, governmental and non-governmental organizations and anyone else interested in human rights.
The essays selected for this volume discuss the meaning and rationale of fundamental individual rights to substantive criminal law, criminal procedure law and sentencing law. The essays have been chosen for their high quality, timeless approach and general attention to issues that are of universal interest and thus not too closely related to the technicalities of a specific criminal justice system, and offer a general overview as well as an in-depth examination of criminal law and human rights.
Practical Global Criminal Procedure contextualizes criminal procedural law by analyzing police investigation in a homicide case under the law of the United States, Argentina, and the Netherlands. The book discusses the fictional case of Nico Jansen, an 18-year-old high school student who, after a series of events, is charged with murder. The initial police investigation of Nico and his co-defendant becomes the vehicle for an in-depth examination of seizures, searches, interrogations, identifications, and remedies for procedural violations under the law of each country. This book is designed as a student reader, and it can be used to provide a comparative experience to students in a basic cri...
The need to prevent convicted prisoners and other offenders from reoffending constitutes a major challenge for both criminal justice and penitentiary systems. Reoffending rates are considerable (in many instances they are even high) while the issue is tremendously complicated. Rehabilitation - sometimes described as resocialization, reintegration, or treatment - is an important tool for the prevention of reoffending, but has clearly become less self-evident in many jurisdictions in recent decades. This volume focuses on the value of restoring offenders to a useful life, from the perspectives of prisoners, their family, society, the tax-payer, prison staff and administration, and victims, as ...
All over the world, governments impose punishments on their citizens for transgressions of the criminal law. Consensus exists that this sanctioning should be in accordance with the principle of legality and the rule of law. However, governments around the world struggle with providing foreseeability and non-arbitrariness in their sentencing systems. This continuous struggle raises the question how - and to what extent - foreseeability and non-arbitrariness must be guaranteed. Not only in relation to the type of sentence imposed (quality), but also to its length (quantity) and the circumstances under which the sentence is executed. Worldwide, a variety of sentencing principles (e.g., proporti...
SETIAP tahun terdapat ribuan perkara peninjauan kembali (PK) yang masuk ke Mahkamah Agung (MA). Karena itu, pemahaman yang lebih utuh tentang PK sangat penting bagi sarjana hukum yang ingin menguasai atau menggeluti sistem peradilan, khususnya sistem peradilan pidana Indonesia. Apakah PK dapat digunakan untuk mengatasi rekayasa kasus yang kadang terjadi selama ini? Benarkah PK menjadi sumber inkonsistensi terbesar dalam sistem peradilan Indonesia? Apakah PK hanya boleh diajukan satu kali atau bisa berkali -kali? Apa kaitan PK dengan pidana mati? Bagaimana mesti menyikapi PK yang merugikan terpidana, seperti PK oleh jaksa? Apakah PK hanya urusan hakim agung di MA, dan apa peran hakim tingkat ...
What legal avenues do states have to regulate cannabis cultivations and trade for recreational use? This question has generated heated discussions in various societies, in political and academic discourses. Several states are considering adjusting or have adjusted their legal and policy approaches towards a more lenient regulation of cannabis cultivation and trade for the recreational user market.Volume I addresses the legal question of to which extent domestic initiatives involving the regulation of cannabis cultivation for recreational use are compatible with the relevant UN narcotic drugs conventions and European Union law. To this end, the book provides a comprehensive and detailed analy...