History of Crime and Punishment
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Book review "Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal" by Dior Konaté
A presente contribuição oferece uma análise crítica das teorias neomarxistas da punição. A primeira parte do texto reconstrói duas perspectivas que emergiram da tradição criminológica materialista: (1) as chamadas “histórias revisionistas... more
Il contributo prende spunto dall’introduzione del reato di tortura nel codice penale italiano e dal dibattito sulla possibile ammissibilità della tortura come strumento estremo di contrasto al terrorismo, diffusosi in particolare negli... more
Współcześnie osoby winne dzieciobójstwa są karane dużo łagodniej niż w wiekach wcześniejszych. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest ukazanie tego zjawiska na podstawie wzmianek w księgach kryminalnych prowadzonych w Żywcu, Wiśniczu oraz... more
The essay analyses constitutional problems raised, first, by criminological reformism of the 1920s, focusing on drafts or laws and, then, by the claim of an authoritarian criminal law formulated by Nazi juristsin 1933. After Dahm’s and... more
This paper explores the semantic colourings, (inter-)textual embedding and subject matters in which the term poena occurs in Roman legal sources of Late Antiquity. It probes its conceptual evolution within the purview of criminal law,... more
Group research essay written and submitted for the Breadth unit BRD205- Crime Through the Ages (Murdoch University). This paper examines medieval crime, particularly witchcraft (the concept of the corruptible woman) and its brutal... more
Research paper/oral presentation from the breadth unit BRD205- Crime Through the Ages (Murdoch University) Are we a more civilized society, judging by the way in which we punish individuals? Examines crime and punishment during the... more
Legality, Ideology and the State. Academic Press: London, 1983. David Sugarman - Editor. pp.304. CONTENTS Karl Renner on socialist legality / Richard Kinsey Pashukanis and the commodity form theory / Ronnie Warrington Legality and... more
Two broad approaches towards confiscating the proceeds of crime have developed since the conception of using confiscation as a response to acquisitive crime—the punitive approach and the deprivatory approach. The Hodgson Committee in 1984... more
El objetivo de este artículo es indagar la Revista Penal y Penitenciaria, el “órgano de difusión” de la Dirección General de Institutos Penales de Argentina, desde su conformación en 1936 hasta el advenimiento del peronismo en 1946,... more
El objetivo de este trabajo es examinar la Revista Penal y Penitenciaria, órgano oficial de la Dirección General de Institutos Penales, desde 1946 a 1953 para comprender el lugar que ocupó en la reforma carcelaria justicialista. Nuestro... more
Este trabajo analiza la edición del Boletín de la Biblioteca Nacional de Criminología y Ciencias Afines, publicación dirigida por Eusebio Gómez, director de la Penitenciaría Nacional de Buenos Aires (1923-1928). Los escritos publicados en... more