The primary aim of my paper is to examine the questions related to the institute of public hearing. As we know, publicity is one of the most important safeguards of fair trial in criminal procedure. In my opinion, it is necessary to examine these procedural questions in a scientific depth in the...

Law no. 678/2001, establishes special provisions regarding the judicial proceedings, with respect to investigating crimes of human trafficking, in two phases: the prosecution and trial. The reason for establishing these special provisions has its foundation in the nature of the crime of human...

Although in the last 10 years in Italy there has been a greater sensitivity by the legislature to the trafficking, including in relation to international commitments such as the Palermo Protocol, there are still difficulties and deficiencies in affording effective jurisdictional protection for...

Crimes of trafficking in human beings is the object of many internal and international regulations, also representing one of the new manifestation modes of the transnational organized crime. What is prejudiced by such a crime is the human person, considered both in it’s material and spiritual...

The United States have had a great fluctuation over history concerning the way drugs were viewed and drug policies. The social and legislative situation of drugs evolved up to the present days by fluctuating towards the extremes in most cases, but in the present it seems to have arrived in a...

Cybercrime is criminal activity done using computers and the Internet. This includes anything from downloading illegal music files to stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts. Cybercrime also includes non-monetary offenses, such as creating and distributing viruses on other...

Once with the spread and use of computers and Internet on a larger scale, trafficking in persons has conquered a new space: cyberspace. The recruitment of victims through the Internet, the use of e-mails for the moral coercion of the victim and ultimately, the exploitation of victims with the...

This paper deals with two aspects referring to the procedure of the preliminary chamber, which could raise questions about the right to a fair trial guaranteed by Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights: is the judge of the preliminary chamber compatible to judge the case on the...

The article deals with the responsibility for a crime committed by command. In international criminal law exists two types of responsibilities. The first is the so called direct or active command responsibility, when the commander displays an active behavior in regards of the crime committed by...

Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees the right to liberty, which requires among other things that, when ordering the custody on remand of a person, all the conditions stipulated by the national legislation must be met. The decisions ruling the taking, maintenance,...