During the last decade, anti-money laundering regulation has escalated within the EU. The goal of this paper is to analyse the extent of the introduced criminal liability for legal persons related to money laundering offences by the sixth EU anti-money laundering directive. The focus of this...

The purpose of this study is to understand how recent legal reforms and the creation of legal offices in Argentina may improve access to justice and legally empower victims of domestic violence. The paper looks into the way the judicial system developed to provide suitable options for victims of...

Allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths or suicides. If those states who did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1570 murders and over 4177 rapes would have...

Die Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts umweht in Deutschland immer noch der Hauch des Exotischen. In diesem Beitrag soll begründet werden, warum das ökonomische Entscheidungsmodell ganz hervorragend dazu geeignet ist, die Verhaltensfolgen von Gesetzen zu prognostizieren. Deshalb kann die ÖAR...

This study displays certain controversial issues related to the prescription of criminal liability and the prescription of the punishment execution, analyzing them both theoretically and practically, based on the resolutions of the courts in Romania. Thus, the study debates upon the acts that...

Even though high penalties for corruption offences have a deterrent and preventive effect, they also entrap bribe-takers and bribe-givers in their corrupt relationship. Moreover, pending penalties can be misused to make threats against opportunistic behavior and can thus stabilize risky bribe...

The expungement is characterized in Criminal Law by its consequences. These consequences, institutionally representing the essence and the specific character of expungement, are common to both expungement by law and judicial one. Expungement acts purposely to abate the consequences of...

It is well known that in the area of criminal law, and not only, has indictment represented one of the most important concepts. It is not less important to correctly and wholly define this concept. For a better definition of indictment, doctrine introduces as distinct entities the legal object,...

One of the most important objectives of the European Union is the creation, maintaining and development of a space of liberty, security and justice, objective which can be attained only under the circumstances of achieving a specific cooperation activity in the criminal system among the member...