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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 …
INTEGRACIÓN DE LA MEDIACION EN LA JUSTICIA PENAL. SUPUESTOS ESPECIALES (Integration of Criminal Mediation in Criminal Justice. Some Special Cases)
2014
Spanish Abstract: En el momento actual que vivimos hablar de mediacion penal es ya una realidad incuestionable. Una mirada al pasado nos lleva a afirmar que no siempre fue asi y que la evolucion de este devenir no ha sido un camino de rosas. Antes al contrario, su entendimiento, aceptacion e incorporacion a los ordenamientos juridicos fue mucho mas lenta que en el ambito de lo disponible -civil, mercantil, laboral etc- e incluso todavia hay determinados ordenamientos en los que existe una gran resistencia a su aceptacion, siendo especialmente significativo en alguno de ellos, como por ejemplo Japon, que viene arrastrando una larga historia cultural de mediacion civil, comercial, social, sie…
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…
Rhetoric as Philosophy of Language. An Aristotelian Perspective
2017
This paper sustains that rhetoric can be a fruitful way of practicing philosophy of language. The startingpoint is a suggestion drawn from the work of the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito. According toEsposito, one of the main characteristics of the Italian thought is the focus on the necessary connectionbetween language and extra-linguistic world. I argue that rhetoric (intended in an Aristotelian sense), thanks to its extra-linguistic aim (persuasion), pays particular attention to this connection. This has important consequences: 1. considering speakers and listeners as essential components of speech and assigning a key position to the listener; 2. including the sphere of emotion in t…
Dowsing from the Late Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: The Practices, Uses and Interpretations of an Element of European Magic
2012
Dowsing was an element of European folk magic. With the help of simple wooden rods persons with special magical abilities were supposed to be able to find hidden objects, from buried treasures to subterranean springs. The rise of dowsing can be traced to its use in the emerging mining centres of Central Europe around 1500. However, dowsers soon claimed nearly universal magical knowledge. Even though dowsing encountered strong scepticism, a number of early modern scholars and scientists tried to explain the alleged efficacy of the rod in a number of different ways, ranging from demonological arguments to the atom theory, and the idea of an all-encompassing world spirit. From the eighteenth …
”Twixt Land and Sea” in Conrad's Youth: a Narrative and Two Other stories...
2017
The article aims at discussing the interdependence of the marine and the land spaces in Conrad’s works. Although they serve the same purpose—they constitute the background, and set the scene for Conrad’s tales, the marine space works quite frequently as a catalyst for human actions. The Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories volume is analysed in order to present the image of land and sea as created by the writer. Moreover, the voyage, the element joining the tales, will be considered from the perspective suggested by Juliet McLauchlan in her inspiring article Conrad’s ‘Three Ages of Man’: The ‘Youth’ Volume.
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 …
“Sustainability as an innovative key element, another perspective to rethink the problem of hunger and poverty in the world”
2018
La Bibliometría en la evaluación de la actividad científica
2018
El análisis y la evaluación de la información y el conocimiento resultante de la actividad científica es un elemento imprescindible para todos los programas de investigación pública, tecnología y desarrollo que se implementan en una sociedad; y es allí donde la Ciencia de la Información brinda una ayuda inestimable, al desarrollar técnicas e instrumentos para medir la producción de conocimiento y su transformación en bienes.La cuantificación de las publicaciones es el elemento básico de la mayor parte de los estudios bibliométricos, mientras que la de las citas puede usarse directamente como medida de la repercusión o importancia de una publicación, o de las publicaciones de una persona, in…
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.