In 2000 when Governor George Ryan unilaterally imposed a statewide moratorium on executions in Illinois, in response to accumulating evidence of more than a dozen wrongfully convicted persons on death row in Illinois. In 1999 the Illinois legislature created the Capital Litigation Trust Fund, to...

Over the past eight years, the use of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay has thrust this rarely used military venue into the forefront of public attention. Legal scholars have increasingly looked to the history of the commissions when addressing the debates over the proper and appropriate...

Australia is set to become the latest in a growing number of countries to join the United States' "coalition of the willing" with respect to the criminalisation of serious cartel conduct. However, there are emerging questions as to whether criminalisation has sufficient support amongst key...

The goal of the Global Impunity Index (GII) is to make visible, in quantitative terms, the impunity worldwide and its relationship with other complex phenomena such as inequality, corruption, and violence. • The GII is the most important international academic effort to measure—in...

This paper criticizes multicausal and penal impunity explanations of violence and crime. It shows the analytical limits of identifying state and social institutional failure with objective causes of violence. But also highlights that impunity indicators cannot be confused with impunity itself....

We document the existence of a gubernatorial election cycle in state executions, suggesting that election year political considerations play a role in determining the timing of executions. Our analysis indicates that states are approximately 25 percent more likely to conduct executions in...

This paper presents the general concepts about human trafficking, prevention and methods of fighting against it, geographical information system concept and how such a system might respond to requirements of its users in order to be useful in preventing and combating this crime are also...

Si l’on prend en considération l’essentiel du systéme de la médiation pénale, on peut dire, que c’est l’isolation du système de la juridiction et en même temps, le branchement avec la procédure pénale. Ce principe est suivi par le systéme de l’organisation de la médiation...

The empirical literature on education and crime suggests that both criminal behavior and educational attainment are transferred from parents to children. However, the impact of criminal behavior of parents on educational outcomes of children is generally ignored, even though the entailed social...