Nobody disputes either the reality of excessive caseloads in indigent defense systems or their negative effects. More than forth years after Gideon v. Wainwright, however, few seem willing to accept that additional resources will not magically appear to solve the problem. Rather, concerned...

A prosecutor's charging decision is the heart of the prosecution function. The charging decision involves an extraordinary exercise of discretionary power that is unreviewable. As a result, the decision is difficult to guide except in the broadest terms. The proposed revisions to the ABA's...

Economic criminality is a criminal activity that violates the economic and property values of the state, harms the public budget, and causes losses to economic entities, harms society in general. Combating and preventing this criminal activity that takes on transnational crime dimensions...

Im Zentrum der gegenständlichen Dissertation steht die kriminologische Untersuchung des Phänomens des Freizeitdrogenkonsums sowie der Population der Freizeitdrogenkonsumenten, in Abgrenzung zur polytoxikomanen Konsumentengrupe der offenen Drogenszene. Basierend auf der Tatsache, dass die in...

Auch wenn wohl kein Land immun gegen Korruption ist, wirkt sich dieses negative Phänomen besonders schädlich auf die arme Bevölkerung von Entwicklungsländern aus. Die großen Summen, die alljährlich von den Multinationalen Entwicklungs¬banken („MDBs“, nämlich der Weltbank, der...