The fight against organized crime has represented, lately, one of the most visible concerns at the level of both the European and the Spanish criminal policy. This study analyzes the evolution of the legal means which tackle the problem from the perspective of the substantive and criminal...

The rapid developments in the last decades in the fields of biology and medicine raise important issues regarding the need to respect the human being both as an individual and in its membership in the human species. Medical acts performed both in research and in terms of curative work must be...

Regardless a convicted person had been noticed or not about the proceedings against it, as long as it was tried and convicted in absentia it is a serious, just and solid reason not to request retrial in cases of extradition under a European arrest warrant.

One of EU objectives is to offer citizens a high level of protection within a space of freedom, security and justice. Gobally, criminality has increased considerably, especially after 1955. In France, criminality falling under the competence of the police is still on a high level, while the one...

At present, the alternative punishments to the jail punishment are extremely limited in options and they are inappropriate for the present social development, the new Criminal Code being very hesitant in this matter, and therefore, it is necessary to consider the introduction in our legislation...

New forms of human trafficking are: I. Trafficking and exploitation of slaves. Trafficking human beings is one method of obtaining slaves. Victims are typically recruited through deceit or trickery (such as a false job offer, false migration offer, or false marriage offer), sale by family...

Trafficking in human beings, a phenomenon with global dimensions constitutes a serious violation of human rights, dignity and freedom, a social phenomenon with negative consequences for the entire society. Countries have been concerned over the time to find the most effective policy measures to...

Answering to the exigencies of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which also guarantees among others, the right to get access to an independent and impartial court toward the executive power, the Law no. 281 from 2003, art. 2781 has been introduced in the Criminal...

The prevention and fight against juvenile delinquency constitutes a permanent preoccupation of the countries through their criminal policy. This issue is also supported by a series of factors such as the lack of social experience of the minor, deficiencies in the educational process developed in...

The prostitution phenomenon is a global, complex, controversial, and problematic phenomenon which remains one of the current subjects debated at national and international level. From a judicial point of view, despite of the numerous legal measures and sporadic actions realized by the police,...