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Showing 1 to 20 of 2557 for “"Criminal"”.
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Corporate criminal liability and international criminal law
… investigates the question of the international criminal liability of corporations. The issue of the involvement of private corporations in international crimes has been a matter of controversy for decades. Over the years, several scholars have commented in favour or against the feasibility of …
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The criminal career profile : a measure of criminal careers
The term criminal career is used to describe the course or progress of criminal activity: its onset, duration, termination, severity, and change in severity. Such a term has important implications, given that significant criminal justice, social, and health policies such as crime control, parole, …
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Governing International Criminal Justice: Managerial Practices and the International Criminal Court
… regimes, including the regime of international criminal justice (ICJ). The mainstream view is that such practices are objective tools which optimise institutional performance and thereby assist them in attaining their goals. Against this view, I offer an alternative understanding of managerial …
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International criminal court, surrender of accused persons and transfer of criminal proceedings
… and national compliance with international criminal law due to the multiplicity of legal regimes are scrutinised by analysing the relationship between national and ICC measures with regard to aspects of pretrial proceedings, such as surrender of accused persons and transfer of criminal …
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The System of the International Criminal Court: Complementarity in International Criminal Justice
… jurisdiction between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and national courts, constitutes one of the key features of the ICC, if not the cardinal one. As such, it keeps attracting the attention of both scholars and practitioners. In addition to the studies related to the …
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Stature and Criminal Behavior
… small stature as a potential contributor to criminal behavior. This study examines the relationship between criminal behavior and stature among American males. The heights, weights, stature scores (a function of the product of height and weight) and the body mass indices of criminals are …
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Online Communities and Offline Criminal Justice: The Digital Fallout of Major Criminal Incidents
… social media and social news in the wake of 53 criminal incidents which generated higher-than-average interest online. Using multiple platforms and analytical techniques, I investigate the dynamics of within- and between-platform information uptake, examine potential avenues and drawbacks of the …
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The Politics and Practice of Individual Criminal Responsibility at the International Criminal Court
… study examines the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a legal institution functioning within international politics by analysing the influence of the international legal norms concerning individual criminal responsibility on the outcomes of ICC prosecutions. Much of the …
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A veritable revolution: the Court of Criminal Appeal in English criminal history 1908-1958
… formation of what was to be the first court of criminal appeal in English history. Such a court had been debated, but ultimately rejected, by successive governments for over half a century. In each debate, members of the judiciary declared that a court for appeals in criminal cases held the …
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Involuntary action and criminal responsibility.
… the concept of involuntary action in the criminal law. In particular it examines the defence of automatism. The discussion of the defence by the courts in England and Wales and jurisprudential commentary regarding involuntary action are considered. Present legal definitions of involuntary …
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Criminal careers and restorative justice
… characteristics such as gender, race and age, criminal history features such as frequency, seriousness, and custody, and ancillary factors such as drug use and victimization can have an impact on offending, and this thesis investigates the extent to which these variables predict time to …
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Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings
… and (ii) its subsequent admissibility in criminal proceedings? Written with an emphasis on South African law, but also taking into account aspects of foreign and international law, the thesis seeks to investigate how our existing legal frameworks which regulate the use of and access to …
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Community structure and criminal victimization
This research has attempted to better understand property crime victimization by studying the important role of community structures, while controlling for the following demographic variables: age, gender, race, and income. Three different types of analyses were used: (1) bivariate analysis; (2) …
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FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
… coherent object of analysis within international criminal law. Existing legal scholarship has either approached the subject from a wider human rights perspective or tended to focus on specific political, historical or geographical contexts, rather than on displacement as a category of …
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Admissibility of confessions in criminal trials
… been shown in some reported decisions that some criminal cases are capable of solution only by means of confessions and/or admissions. There are three phases that are important in determining whether a confession is admissible in evidence. The first phase is when a suspect is interrogated by the …
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Essays on Criminal Justice and Inequality
… encompasses three essays on policing and criminal justice, algorithms and inequality. The first two essays examine the efficacy and equity implications of data-driven algorithms that are increasingly used in important life-altering decision-making contexts. The third essay investigates …
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Child witnesses in Scottish criminal courts
Gathering evidence from young and vulnerable witnesses requires special care, and subjecting them to the traditional adversarial form of examination and cross-examination – often characterized by overly leading, complex, and confusing questioning – has come under increased scrutiny. The present …
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