Download or read book Cuestiones b sicas de derecho penitenciario y de ejecuci n de penas privativas de libertad written by Marta Vicente de Gregorio and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La ejecuci n de la pena privativa de libertad written by José Daniel Cesano and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fundamentos del Sistema Penitenciario written by Ricardo M. Mata y Martín and published by Tecnos. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La obra nos introduce de una manera singular en el ámbito de la ejecución de las penas y medidas de seguridad privativas de libertad como un espacio de significación muy específica. La aparición de la misma en un tiempo, históricamente hablando, relativamente reciente, de este tipo de sanción criminal -que no del encierro cautelar-, obliga a una profunda reflexión sobre su contenido, finalidad y la organización necesaria para su puesta en práctica. Este momento se caracteriza así por el nacimiento de la Ciencia penitenciaria que el Profesor Mata describe en sus hitos fundamentales hasta plantear los problemas y prácticas actuales tanto en Europa como en EEUU. El autor analiza el concepto de Derecho penitenciario y su relación con la teoría de la pena. Estas reglas jurídicas encargadas de la organización de la ejecución de estas sanciones privativas de libertad -el Derecho penitenciario- se constituyen como complemento mutuamente necesario de las normas penales sensu stricto. La obra profundiza durante su desarrollo en la internacionalización del fenómeno penitenciario que, en realidad, recorre transversalmente todos los capítulos del libro. De manera que así se enfoca el estudio de los aspectos históricos, la mencionada Ciencia penitenciaria, los principios informadores de la ejecución penitenciaria, la teoría de la pena y la noción de Derecho penitenciario, la normativa internacional en esta materia, la relación con los Derechos Fundamentales del sistema penitenciario, el análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de los sistemas europeos o la problemática actual de los mismos. De forma que lo que hace el autor es mostrarnos un conjunto plural de aspectos y elementos comunes a todo sistema penitenciario y que, por tanto, resultan de obligado análisis para un cabal conocimiento del fundamento, la legislación, los contenidos y la realidad de la ejecución de las penas privativas de libertad.

Download or read book Derecho y prisiones hoy written by Francisco Javier de León Villalba and published by Univ de Castilla La Mancha. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hablar de derechos y prisiones hoy implica la necesidad de valorar el aumento de la población reclusa y el crecimiento del número de extranjeros en prisión pero, igualmente, el endurecimiento de nuestro Código Penal en la imposición de las penas privativas de libertad, y de las líneas político-criminales que fundamentan su aplicación. Hablar de la necesidad de reforzar el cumplimiento de los derechos fundamentales de las personas que sufren la privación de libertad y buscar verdaderas alternativas a su aplicación, plantear la necesaria reinterpretación del concepto de relación especial en el ámbito del régimen y del tratamiento penitenciario, entre otros temas. Todo ello en el marco de una ejecución pragmática, marcada por la consecución de la finalidad constitucional CE, pero desde una perspectiva estrictamente humana, alejada de tintes idealistas y sujetas a las necesidades racionales del Estado de derecho. Con todo ello, creo que podríamos configurar el panorama presente y futuro de la que a pesar de todo es y será la principal consecuencia jurídica derivada de la comisión de actos delictivos.

Download or read book Evoluci n de la pena privativa de libertad y r gimenes penitenciarios written by Elías Neuman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manual de Derecho Penitenciario written by Luis Fernández Arevalo and published by Aranzadi. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra aborda toda la problemática de la ejecución de las penas privativas de libertad, incluyendo las medidas de seguridad, distinguiendo entre los dos aspectos, ejecución y cumplimiento, que constituyen la naturaleza mixta de la ejecución penal en España. Coloquialmente, y entre los abogados, se hace referencia a los aspectos de ejecución cuya competencia se atribuye al órgano judicial sentenciador y los que se atribuyen a los Juzgados de Vigilancia Penitenciaria. Simplificando: ejecución penal y ejecución penitenciaria. Estamos ante un completísimo material, que además de abordar todos los aspectos de la ejecución penal, profundiza en materias que hasta el momento, prácticamente, no habían sido tratadas por los escasos libros o manuales que sobre la materia se han publicado. De esta forma nos acerca a temas que hasta la fecha han sido desconocidos e ignorados por los abogados, como la regulación del trabajo penitenciario, los aspectos penitenciarios que afectan a los extranjeros que cumplen penas privativas de libertad en los centros penitenciarios españoles, o las formas especiales de ejecución, haciendo especial mención, dada la relevancia que vienen tomando en los últimos años, a los Convenios de Traslados de Personas Condenadas a su país de origen, en su doble dimensión de españoles que habiendo sido condenados por un tribunal extranjero desean cumplir la pena en España, y extranjeros condenados por los tribunales españoles que desean ser trasladados a las prisiones de su país a cumplir la que les ha sido impuesta.

Download or read book Human Rights Rule of Law and the Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies Proceedings of the XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy of the Internationale Vereinigunf f r Rechts und Sozialphilosophie written by Marcelo Galuppo and published by Initia Via Editora. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The conference was organized by the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) – IVR and by a Associação Brasileira de Filosofia do Direito e de Sociologia do Direito (Brazilian Association for Philosophy of Law and Sociology of Law) – ABRAFI andtook place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais’ Campus, from July 21 through July 27, 2015. The papers published in the Proceedings were presented during the Conference in many Working Groups and Special Workshops, which represent the significant diversity of themes and subjects discussed by the participants from all over the world. They express the high leveled research and the creative endeavor of each author, and help us to understand the broad and distinct perspectives in order to understand Law from the standpoint of the main theme of this Conference: Human Rights, Rule of Law and the Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies." – Editors.

Download or read book How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease written by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.

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Download or read book Assessing Correctional Rehabilitation written by Francis T. Cullen and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theme that has persisted throughout the history of American corrections is that efforts should be made to reform offenders. In particular, at the beginning of the 1900s, the rehabilitative ideal was enthusiastically trumpeted and helped to direct the renovation of the correctional system (e.g., implementation of indeterminate sentencing, parole, probation, a separate juvenile justice system). For the next seven decades, offender treatment reigned as the dominant correctional philosophy. Then, in the early 1970s, rehabilitation suffered a precipitous reversal of fortune. The larger disruptions in American society in this era prompted a general critique of the “state run” criminal justice system. Rehabilitation was blamed by liberals for allowing the state to act coercively against offenders, and was blamed by conservatives for allowing the state to act leniently toward offenders. In this context, the death knell of rehabilitation was seemingly sounded by Robert Martinson's (1974b) influential “nothing works” essay, which reported that few treatment programs reduced recidivism. This review of evaluation studies gave legitimacy to the antitreatment sentiments of the day; it ostensibly “proved” what everyone “already knew”: Rehabilitation did not work. In the subsequent quarter century, a growing revisionist movement has questioned Martinson's portrayal of the empirical status of the effectiveness of treatment interventions. Through painstaking literature reviews, these revisionist scholars have shown that many correctional treatment programs are effective in decreasing recidivism. More recently, they have undertaken more sophisticated quantitative syntheses of an increasing body of evaluation studies through a technique called “meta-analysis.” These meta-analyses reveal that across evaluation studies, the recidivism rate is, on average, 10 percentage points lower for the treatment group than for the control group. However, this research has also suggested that some correctional interventions have no effect on offender criminality (e.g., punishment-oriented programs), while others achieve substantial reductions in recidivism (i.e., approximately 25 percent). This variation in program success has led to a search for those “principles” that distinguish effective treatment interventions from ineffective ones. There is theoretical and empirical support for the conclusion that the rehabilitation programs that achieve the greatest reductions in recidivism use cognitive-behavioral treatments, target known predictors of crime for change, and intervene mainly with high-risk offenders. “Multisystemic treatment” is a concrete example of an effective program that largely conforms to these principles. In the time ahead, it would appear prudent that correctional policy and practice be “evidence based.” Knowledgeable about the extant research, policymakers would embrace the view that rehabilitation programs, informed by the principles of effective intervention, can “work” to reduce recidivism and thus can help foster public safety. By reaffirming rehabilitation, they would also be pursuing a policy that is consistent with public opinion research showing that Americans continue to believe that offender treatment should be an integral goal of the correctional system.

Download or read book Instruments of Statecraft written by Michael McClintock and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sexism and Stereotypes in Modern Society written by William B. Swann and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the province of a small group of theorists and researchers operating on the periphery of psychological science, gender research has charged into the psychological mainstream during the last two decades. In large measure, Janet T. Spence has been responsible for this transformation, challenging the traditional ideas of fundamental difference between men and women. The simple idea of difference, once used to rationalize prejudices and discrimination, has now been replaced by a complex, sophisticated awareness of how gender is constructed and maintained. This book explores new empirical work and theoretical models about the causes and consequences of constructing gender.

Download or read book Fear of Crime in the United States written by Jodi Lane and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear of Crime in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Contradictions examines the nature and extent of crime-related fear. The authors describe and evaluate key research findings in the specific areas of methodology; gender, age, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status; contextual predictors; and the consequences of fear of crime. They discuss the improvement of fear of crime measures over time; the consistent finding that women are more afraid of crime; the impact of age, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on fear; and the importance of environmental factors (such as witnessing crime and perceptions of diversity, disorder, and decline) and indirect victimization (through acquaintances and the media) on fear. The book also describes the physical, psychological, behavioral, and social effects of fear of crime. In the end, the authors tie the findings together to suggest important policy and research implications from the wealth of available research. There is no other book of which I am aware that so masterfully reviews empirical studies on fear of crime during the past half century to show how the research has changed and will continue to evolve. As long as there is crime, there will be perceptions of risk and fear of victimization; and Lane et al. help one to sift through the research with conceptual precision to formulate the most scientifically valid conclusions about the phenomena. The book is a hedgehog view of the research but points the way to needed research on topics such as fear of terrorism and how social context shapes perceptions of crime. The book is must-reading for those involved in research on victimization or fear of crime. - Kenneth F. Ferraro, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University This book consolidates the literature on fear of crime in a way that is unprecedented and that lends much-needed coherence to the area. It is

Download or read book In Russian and French Prisons written by Peter Kropotkin and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1887, “In Russian and French Prisons” is Peter Kropotkin's detailed critique of French and Russian prisons in the late 19th century. Within it, Kropotkin offers poignant descriptions of the conditions of those who undergo solitary confinement while offering his own panacea to the wealth of problems engendered by the existence of prisons: abolish them entirely. Although written over a century ago, Kropotkin's astute criticisms of the penal system are still very much relevant today. Contents include: “My First acquaintance With Russian Prisons”, “Russian Prisons”, “He Fortress Of St. Peter And St. Paul”, “Outcast Russia”, “The Exile In Siberia”, “The Exile On Sakhali”, “A Foreigner On Russian Prisons”, etc. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842–1921) was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist, scientist, sociologist, essayist, historian, researcher, political scientist, geographer, geographer, biologist, philosopher and advocate of anarcho-communism. He was a prolific writer, producing a large number of pamphlets and articles, the most notable being “The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops” and “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from “Comrade Kropotkin” by Victor Robinson.

Download or read book Reform and Regret written by Larry W. Yackle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oddball comedy starring Matt Lucas. Bald and morbidly obese Franklin Franklin (Lucas) lives in an apartment complex filled with other quirky and eccentric characters including his stoner neighbour Tommy Balls (Johnny Knoxville) and the permanently bitter Mr. Allspice (James Caan). In a heated argument over rent, Franklin accidentally kills his landlord Mr Olivetti (Peter Stormare) and while staging the death as a suicide unwittingly causes a fire. When he hears that his brother has died from a brain tumour and left him a rather large amount of money in a Swiss bank account, Franklin sees an opportunity to make his escape, but before he can do so, he'll have to avoid detection by the fire investigation team led by Burt Walnut (Billy Crystal).

Download or read book Between Prison and Probation written by Norval Morris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on probation, it is clear we are experiencing a crisis in our penal system. In Between Prison and Probation, Norval Morris and Michael Tonry, two of the nation's leading criminologists, offer an important and timely strategy for alleviating these problems. They argue that our overwhelmed corrections system cannot cope with the flow of convicted offenders because the two extremes of punishment--imprisonment and probation--are both used excessively, with a near-vacuum of useful punishments in between. Morris and Tonry propose instead a comprehensive program that relies on a range of punishment including fines and other financial sanctions, community service, house arrest, intensive probation, closely supervised treatment programs for drugs, alcohol and mental illness, and electronic monitoring of movement. Used in rational combinations, these "intermediate" punishments would better serve the community than our present polarized choice. Serious consideration of these punishments has been hindered by the widespread perception that they are therapeutic rather than punitive. The reality, however, Morris and Tonry argue, "is that the American criminal justice system is both too severe and too lenient--almost randomly." Systematically implemented and rigorously enforced, intermediate punishments can "better and more economically serve the community, the victim, and the criminal than the prison terms and probation orders they supplant." Between Prison and Probation goes beyond mere advocacy of an increasing use of intermediate punishments; the book also addresses the difficult task of fitting these punishments into a comprehensive, fair and community-protective sentencing system.

Download or read book Language Interaction and Social Cognition written by G. R. Semin and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of language is increasingly acknowledged within social psychology. In this seminal book, a group of distinguished authors goes beyond general theory to address, from a research base, key issues in the interrelationship between language, interaction and social cognition. Their starting point is that the ways in which we perceive and, therefore, interact with others are structured by the language available to us, as a socially constructed system above and beyond individual minds. The relationship between language and social cognition is not, however, a fixed or unicausal one: linguistic terms are also generated in response to social and cultural development. The interplay is dialectical - a dialectic of the social. The authors explore this dialectic through such themes as: the use and power of category labels; trait-behaviour relations in social information processing; and interpersonal verbs and attribution. They examine the significance of language use in the persistence of stereotypes, and the links between syntactical reasoning processes and social cognition, as well as the impact of perspectivity. They consider the ways in which communication roles and context shape, and are shaped by, language. Language, Interaction and Social Cognition will be essential reading for all those in social psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics and communication studies concerned with the role of language in interaction and social cognition.