Child sexual abuse is a prevalent social problem. The ratio of sexual abuse victims who are minor is considerable (Pereda, Guilera, Forns, & Gómez-Benito, 2009) While child sexual abuse has been associated with a number of various consequences in childhood, research also shows that they tend to pers...

Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein (figure © RUB, Marquard) This contribution is part of the “Law, Politics & Society in doctrine” series. The interview was conducted by Philipp Günther. Mr Singelnstein, at Ruhr University Bochum, leads the Master in Crime, Criminalistics and Police Science. Who is t...

The ‘anarchist criminology’ is honoured by two recent works published in the United States and coordinated by the same three authors, Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis and Jeff Shantz. Reading Classic writings in Anarchist Criminology and Contemporary Anarchist Criminology makes it possible to revert...

The State and the responsibility of public administrations in processes of marginalisation of vulnerable zones. A reflection on L. Wacquant’s vision. Recently, in the framework of the International Seminar on Criminal Law and Criminology held at UNED for a number of years, I had the opportunity to r...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the measures and programmes for the eradication of illegal crops that have been put in place in some countries, and their negative consequences for farmers who participate or not in these activities, in particular in Latin American countries, and in particul...

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from 1885 to 1914, Lyon was the capital of French criminology. Dr Alexandre Lacassagne (1843-1924), a professor of the Chair of the forensic medicine, has become necessary, together with his expertise (the so-called ‘Gouffé malle’ case, Caserio, Joseph Vacher, etc.), his writes, the creation of the...

Volume 12 of the criminal philosophy and criminology trials will report this year on the work of the 2015 academic year of the Paris Institute of Crime. The general theme of the review, from limits to the desire for power, will be based on the concepts of arrangement of the body of the other or appr...

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Managed work presented to the Faculty of Arts and Science for the graduation of leadership in Criminology The Extraordinary Chambers in Cambodian Courts (ECTC) were implemented in 2005, about 30 years after the end of the Khmer Rouge regime. This hybrid court was the result of long negotiations betw...

These Provisional Courses, initially coordinated by Fleur Collienne and Isaline Wittorski, are intended to support International Humanitarian Law at the Faculty of Law, Political Science and Crime of the University of Liège (academic year 2017-2018).

Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting Child Sexual Abuse describes how these forces shape our views of victims and offenders, while also providing an in-depth look at prevention efforts and cu...

This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By devel...

International audience ObjectivesThe present clinical research explores the underlying logic of litigious paranoid delusion, more specifically in its querulous and pseudo-altruistic forms. This research examines both the causality and the psychic functions fulfilled by episodes of vengeful acting ou...

Recidivism belongs to the main categories of criminology, crime policy and criminal justice. If the target of preventing offenders from reoffending is taken seriously crime policy should be measured by success of certain penal sanctions in terms of relapses. Also institutions that deal directly with...

The study of the offender’s personality falls first within the field of behavioral sciences, such as psychology, psychiatry, criminology or even philosophy. However, through the social defense movement, the criminal law field got more and more interested in the study. In criminal law, the offender i...

Fernando Cadalso and Manzano (1859-1939) was one of the most important Spanish criminal lawyers of the first half of the 20th century. He had a long and prolific career in the prisons field: director of several prisons (The Model Prison of Madrid, amongst others); General Surveyor of Prisons during...

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The so-called sanctuary cities are currently the main source of opposition to federal anti-immigrant policies in the United States. The central argument of this cross-case study is that the sanctuary category brings together a set of informal laws, policies and practices of different nature, with di...

Considering the role played in France in recent years by design in modernising the state, we wonder whether the latter would not be in the process of becoming a government science in the same way as statistics, mapping, criminology, archiving, political economics or opinion studies. The article is a...

PARIS RIVE DROITE, RIVE GAUCHE Ecole expérimentale de criminologie (Université Paris 1 / L’Estran). 3ème année. La première séance du séminaire 2010 s’est déroulée vendredi 29 janvier 2010. Rappelons que cet enseignement universitaire s’inscrit dans le cadre de la formation continue ; elle est payan...

Convict Criminology has developed in the United States in the last ten years. There is something special about this academic current: its founding members have themselves experienced imprisonment; they are “ex-cons”. Starting by reversing the stigmatism, the convict criminologists are endeavouring t...

Summary: The article fears a central problem for the criminal law response to high-level corruption: resistance to criminalisation and to the corrupt treatment of actions carried out by individuals of high status in the ordinary economy. Its aim is to demonstrate the performance of reading some feat...