The French criminal justice currently goes through a diversification of cases treatment processes. This diversification is the result of many factors, both endogenous and exogenous. It is the focal point of the evolution in theoretical approaches regarding criminal phenomena, social expectations of...

This thesis refers to the international legal problems represented by the hostage taking all over the world, especially in Colombia. Having as a goal the granting of the universal rights to life and to freedom, the States and the International community repress hostage taking. They adopt internation...

Age is a central variable in analysing and understanding the crime phenomenon. At individual level, many studies show that delinquency appears from the beginning of adolescence, rising to around 17 years of age and decreasing thereafter. If crime is strongly associated with age, changes in the demog...

Organised crime generated by groups that expanded after the disappearance of the USSR was somewhat unexpected in the West and difficult to predict due to the conditions of concealment in which this great crime developed within Soviet borders. These are sophisticated organised crime groups whose firs...

This article returns to a colonial discourse on crime, criminals, and punishment that the court of justice enunciated and followed during an 8-year British occupation of the Cape of Good Hope in the latter part of 1795. Tapping unusually frank juridical discussions on criminality and punishment in t...

peer reviewed Crimes commited by slaves in Roman Egypt

the changes in international security call for consideration by innovative instruments. The establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which specialises in the fight against fraud against the Union’s financial interests, brings a new dimension to the internal but also external aspects...

The crowds have proved to be a subject of study in the past, which is a major prejudices. Traditionally encouraging mistrust, it is common to see in the various fields (philosophy, literature, painting, etc.) a trend towards personification. As a monstruer and calling for collective hystery, crowds...

The article deals with the history of the Santiago Urban Police, specifically its action against the crime that hit the Chilean capital of a thousand nine hundred. From sources such as the investigation archive, the press and police magazines, it follows the steps of the officers and guardians of th...

Criminal law is a noble domain whose legal norms fight against antisocial acts. It aims to protect the values of civilized societies in this word. Indeed, between one society and another, it is possible to notice a divergence of these legal norms. This divergence, while being a variety or a wealth,...

This thesis deals with the detection of credit card fraud. According to the European Central Bank, the value of frauds using cards in 2016 amounted to 1.8 billion euros. The challenge for institutions is to reduce these frauds. In general, fraud detection systems consist of an automatic system built...

Summary The present article develops a quantitative descriptive analysis on the performance of the system through which the Colombian Government implements its criminal public policy: judicial, criminal and prison system. This study is carried out not from the point of view of law, but from the poin...

Our thesis concerns the study of the penal colonization of the French Guiana by one relegated interned in the penal colony of Saint-Jean-du-Maroni. The law on the banishment of the recidivists voted May 27th, 1885 entails the exile for life within a colony of delinquents and criminal recidivists. Fr...

Under the influence of intelligence-led policing models, crime analysis methods have known of important developments in recent years. Applications have been proposed in several fields of forensic science to exploit and manage various types of material evidence in a systematic and more efficient way....

The article starts from the discovery of the complexity of the phenomenon of violence, either because of the wide range of actors involved or because of the heterogeneity of the factors affecting it, then goes on to briefly describe all the crises (economic, environmental, food and energy) that are...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThis article describes the influence that illicit alcohol and drug use has on crime in England and Wales by briefly examining knowledge of the impact of such abuse on criminal behaviour. Criminal law and punishment law introduced in response to this undeniable societal problem...

This article investigates the crucial issue of the redistribution of oil wealth in the Nigerian federation. Following the 2015 elections, it brings fresh perspectives to analyse the conflicting positions of the partisans of equalisation and militants for fiscal regionalism. The former speak of socia...

An aspect that has been studied in cross-categorisation is the criminality resulting from the crossing of categories used to achieve the reduction of inter-group bias. Eurich-Fulcer and Schofield (1995) have found in this respect that when correlated categories are crossed (typical category crossing...

International audience Given the considerable breadth of possibilities that crime and criminals evoke in cinema, there is no question of prioritizing a certain theme or approach. On this subject, it was possible to treat screen adaptations of important trials and crimes that shocked the public, to e...

This work explores the possibilities of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the study of spatial aspects related to fear of crime in urban contexts, and presents a specific case: study of fear of crime in DonostiaSan Sebastian. Based on surveys of a sample of residents, the distribution of t...

In this work, the relationship between gender, victimisation, criminality, enforcement of the prison sentence and social reintegration of women criminals are analysed. They are the fruits of the work carried out under the R & D project “Equality and criminal law: gender and nationality as primar...

The aim of this paper is to present crime related to cultural heritage in the world, and to determine through theoretical analysis whether it is increasing or decreasing. Reading the literature, it was concluded that crime in the field of cultural heritage is growing, and that it is most common in e...

Through the study of Asuntos Políticos fund of Cuba National Archives, this paper approaches the construction of social categories, in order to deal with various historical phenomena whose expression has always been focused from categories such as marginality and criminality. We study the characteri...

This article aims to analyze the film Ônibus Linha 174 (José Padilha, 2002) as another interpretation of the episode narrated and commented based on a variety of texts. The film is a documentary, which was produced by Jose Padilha (also director) and Marcos Prado, photography by Cesar Morales and Ma...

This article deals with the treatment of criminality and some of its consequences for the notion of punishment in neoliberal societies and control of late modernity, broadening the legalistic idea of culpable stigmatisation, since this is part of the government rationality and the driving that opera...