Search results for " CRIMINAL LAW"
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Adolescent Brain Development and Progressive Legal Responsibility in the Latin American Context
2020
In this article, we analyze the contributions of neuroscience to the development of the adolescent brain and shed additional light on the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the context of Latin America. In neurobiology, maturity is perceived to be complex because the brain’s temporal development process is not uniform across all its regions. This has important consequences for adolescents’ behavior; in their search for the acceptance of their peers, they are more vulnerable to pressure and more sensitive to stress than adults. Their affectivity is more unstable, and they show signs of low tolerance to frustration and important emotional reactivity, with a decrease in the capacity to …
Accountability for crimes committed by autonomous weapon systems under international criminal law
2022
With conventional weapons a human is responsible for the target selection and the pulling of the trigger. In contrast to this, AWS themselves are responsible for these tasks. The contemporary framework of International Law regulating this problem focuses on the conventional weapons and the human operator behind them. This thesis is trying to partake in the solution of the following legal problem: if the current International Criminal Law-framework sufficiently regulates accountability for proscribed acts committed by Autonomous Weapon Systems. To achieve this the thesis focuses on the research question: Which individual would be held accountable for proscribed acts committed by Autonomous W…
Die mafiaartige organisierte Kriminalität und das italienische Strafrechtssystem
2013
Nach eine Einführung über die Mitwirkung von Recht und Gesellschaft in der italiänischen Einsatz gegen die Mafiartige Kriminalität, wird die ursprünglich ausdrückliche Nichtberücksichtigung des Problems im italienischen Strafgesetzbuch sowie der ersten außer-strafrechtlichen Maßnahmen dargestllt. Dann werden drei Antimafia-Phasen im italienischen Strafrechtssystem zusammengefasst: Eine erste Gruppe von Maßnahmen, die infolge des grundlegenden Gesetzes von 1982 und in den folgenden zehn Jahren in Kraft traten; eine zweite Gruppe von Normen, die nach den Morden an den Richtern Giovanni Falcone und Paolo Borsellino 1992 eingeführt wurden (auch mit Bezugnahme auf den entscheidenden Bereich der …
Traffico di migranti: Sicilia, Italia, Europa?
2014
Abstract of the conference held in Palermo on 19-20th November 2014 organized in the framework of the Research Project "Reati transnazionali e esigenze di cooperazione giudiziaria", coordinated by Prof. Vincenzo Militello (Professor of Law, University of Palermo), together with the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, The German Embassy in Italy and Goethe Institut.
3. La rilevanza indiretta della nozione di organizzazione criminale nella normativa derivata dell'UE. 3.1. Rinvio espresso alle norme definitoriedell…
2017
La ricerca analizza il livello di implementazione negli ordinamenti penali di alcuni Stati dell'UE della nozione normativa di organizzazione.
Patient autonomy and criminal law: an Italian perspective
2022
This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy. In particular, it explains the role of criminal law, that is, what criminal law protection of patient autonomy looks like on a European scale in both legal and social dimensions. The chapter focuses on the current state of criminal protection of patient autonomy in the Italian legal system.
Verso un diritto penale geneticamente modificato? A proposito di un recente progetto di riforma dei reati agroalimentari
2016
The article analyses, first of all, – also in a comparative key – the most significant problematic aspects emerging from the resort, very frequent in the food sector, to typification techniques based on references to European legislation. Lexical hybridisms and precautionary needs of the European model of food security risk to affect the classical categories of criminal law, not only at the level of relevant concepts, but also at that of fundamental principles. After an overall look to the contents of the reform Project of agro-food crimes elaborated by the Caselli Commission in 2015, the study focuses particularly on the way the Project suggests to rewrite the cornerstone offence establish…
Resíduos sólidos e crime de poluição: avanços e retrocessos na legislação e na jurisprudência italianas
2020
O presente artigo apresenta a evolução normativa e jurisprudencial envolvendo crimes de poluição por resíduos sólidos na Itália, país que possui tradição no trato de condutas ilícitas ligadas à denominada Ecomáfia. A pesquisa foi orientada pelo método funcionalista e as técnicas de pesquisa utilizadas foram bibliográfica e jurisprudencial. Embora a evolução da legislação penal ambiental na Itália tenha focado mais a questão dos resíduos do que o Brasil, observam-se dificuldades em comum, como a deficiência na apuração dos crimes, a demora nos julgamentos com a consequente possibilidade de reconhecimento da prescrição e as falhas da legislação que permitem aos infratores evitar as condenaçõe…
Sanctions for Legal Entities in South American and European Systems of Corporate Criminal Liability
2021
The present analysis of sanctions for cases of liability of legal entities for crimes (corporate criminal liability) adopts a two-fold comparative perspective. First, it focuses on the sanctions provided by the laws of those legal systems, in South America, which introduced such liability, especially in the last two decades after the United Nations’ treaties on organized crime and corruption. Then, it continues with a parallel overview of sanctioning choices in those Member States of the European Union which opted for such liability. The analysis highlights similar and different approaches both in the two contexts and within each of them. Overall, a process of “weak harmonization” of sancti…
Sindacato di legittimità costituzionale e legalità penale: il delicato equilibrio tra ruolo della Corte Costituzionale e discrezionalità del legislat…
2022
The paper intends to focus on the issue of the relationship between the judgment of constitutional legitimacy and the legislator's discretionary power in criminal matters. The Constitutional Court, especially in recent years, has carried out an overall rewriting of criminal law, through rulings that have affected some of the most significant institutions, introducing a substitute regulation for that deliberated by the legislator. To achieve this result, in the name of safeguarding fundamental rights, the Constitutional Court devised new techniques of adjudication, forcing patterns that had already been established in its jurisprudence or proposing new ways of adjudication in incidental proc…