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"Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today's writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided along with excerpts of authentic courtroom dialogue. Topics covered include criminal and civil law; differences between federal, state, and Native American...
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Drawing on his personal fascinating story as a prosecutor, a defendant, and an observer of the legal process, Paul Butler offers a sharp and engaging critique of our criminal justice system. He argues against discriminatory drug laws and excessive police power and shows how our policy of mass incarceration erodes communities and perpetuates crime. Controversially, he supports jury nullification--or voting "not guilty" out of principle--as a way for...
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The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously...
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It is easy to get a criminal record. Simply being accused of a crime will lead to police making a record (usually called incident or occurrence report) of the event, even if no charges are laid. And if police do decide to lay charges, which they will do if they have the slightest belief that the person is guilty, fingerprints and photographs are taken. These become a criminal record, even if the charge may not result in conviction, if the person is...
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Cuando una acción humana daña o lesiona a otros, ¿la única respuesta posible es la punitiva? ¿Existen modos de pensar el problema más allá de las categorías restrictivas de delito y castigo? Este libro se propone como un ambicioso aporte en esta dirección, y lo hace partiendo de una premisa tan original como provocadora: es bueno que las sociedades no se sientan cómodas respecto del castigo, que los ciudadanos lo consideren como un mal antes...
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Este artículo analiza la actual situación de precariedad en la que se encuentra el sistema penitenciario brasileño y como consecuencia de la ineficacia de la función resocializadora pluma y una comparación con Argentina. La evolución de la pena y sus especies y teorías. Las precarias condiciones en las que se llevaron, no sólo impiden que la rehabilitación es eficaz, pero también establece ofensa a uno de los principales derechos que la...
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Criminal justice reform efforts are sweeping the nation, and the damage to society is alarming. These movements have gained traction by the promotion of false narratives and a massive deception placed upon the public. Injustice for All rips away the façade of these reform movements with facts, exposing the disasters of "criminal justice reform." Whereas social justice is inundated with feelings, Surber's book is filled with facts. The men and women...
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Daniel Baum's guides to Canadian law have become essential legal guides for topics ranging from young offenders to first responders. Whether for law professionals of citizens who need to understand their legal rights, the books of the Understanding Canadian Law series are indispensable. Now, the first three instalments of the series are available in an ebook-exclusive bundle. Includes Youth and the Law What's the law? What does it mean? If the law...
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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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¿Es posible anticipar la obediencia o no a las órdenes judiciales? ¿Qué sucede después de ganar un litigio contra alguna formade discriminación? ¿Cuáles son los incentivos o costos que inducen a los condenados a desobedecer una sentencia? En este innovador libro se analiza la experiencia de las víctimas tras obtener un triunfo judicial, recibido con altas expectativas y, con la esperanza de que las órdenes emitidas sean efectivamente cumplidas....
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#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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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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NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a debut author. Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers. Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category). Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects...
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El segundo volumen de Derecho Penal de Principios se dedicado al análisis de los principios fundamentales. Constituye una reflexión incisiva y práctica sobre tres principios fundamentales del Derecho Penal: legalidad, proporcionalidad y culpabilidad.
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...
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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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In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development...
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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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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....
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La obra recoge aspectos fundamentales de la teoría del Delito y de su evolución, desde la óptica del profesor Urs Kindhäuser. Entre los temas expuestos en este trabajo se presentan algunas cuestiones sobre los delitos de peligro y un estudio sobre la culpabilidad penal en el Estado democrático, así mismo se dedican algunos capítulos a la lógica de la construcción del delito, a la forma y contenido del consentimiento en el derecho penal, y...
20) 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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