Search results for "Criminal"

Tracking down phrasal verbs: the case of up and down

2016

Since the frequency of phrasal verbs is register-specific, it is essential for L2 learners to be exposed to the most productive phrasal verbs in their field of study. Thus, English for Police learners should become familiar and practise the most recurrent phrasal verbs in the context of crime and police investigative work. In this study we determine the frequency and meaning extensions of phrasal verbs with the particles up and down in a spoken corpus of English for the Police on the basis of which we also generate teaching materials for L2 trainee police officers. This research extends McCarthy and O’Dell’s (2004) scope of analysis by encompassing not only phrasal verbs related to criminal…

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance use disorders, and criminality: a difficult problem with complex solutions.

2014

Abstract The association between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and criminality has been increasingly recognized as an important societal concern. Studies conducted in different settings have revealed high rates of ADHD among adolescent offenders. The risk for criminal behavior among individuals with ADHD is increased when there is psychiatric comorbidity, particularly conduct disorder and substance use disorder. In the present report, it is aimed to systematically review the literature on the epidemiological, neurobiological, and other risk factors contributing to this association, as well as the key aspects of the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD among offende…

Weakening Forensic Science in Spain: From Expert Evidence to Documentary Evidence*

2012

An amendment in 2002 to the Spanish Code of Criminal Procedure converted into documentary evidence the expert reports prepared by official laboratories aimed at determining the nature, weight, and purity of seized drugs. In most cases, experts are spared from appearance before the courts. This is likely to be extended to other forensic fields. After an overview of criminalistic identification in current forensic science, the objectivity and reliability concepts used by jurists and scientists are considered by comparing the paradigm of individualization with that of likelihood. Subsequently, a detailed critical study is made on the above-mentioned Spanish legal reform, and a comparison is ma…

Tercer pilar y derecho de asilo

1997

Object and subject of evasion of taxes and other compulsory payments

2014

The paper is devoted to such topical issue of Criminal Law as Object and Subject of Evasion of Taxes and Other Compulsory Payments. There are analyzed researched crime determination problems, which are connected with subject and object of tax and other compulsory payments evasion. In the course of the research, the author has made the conclusions that the object of the evasion of taxes and other compulsory payments group is the national economic interests. The direct object is the national economic interests in the sphere of state revenues or the national fiscal interests. While analyzing the law and regulations it is concluded that the subject of the evasion of taxes and other compulsory p…

The Perpetrator's mise-en-scene: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide

2018

Rithy Panh's film S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker's camera. Yet, a crucial testimony was missing in that puzzle: the voice of the prison's director, Kaing Guek Eav, comrade Duch. When the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) were finally established in Phnom Penh to judge the master criminals of Democratic Kampuchea, the first to be indicted was this desk criminal. The film Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (R. Panh, 2011) deploys a new confrontation – an a…

The Convention For Choosing The Applicable Law – A Construction Specific For The Relationships Of Private Law With Foreign Element

2017

The legal relationships with foreign element generate the need to designate the law applicable in the conflict of laws. The national conflictual right and the European regulations govern the two complementary mechanisms for determining the law of the cause. Choosing the law by the parties gives expression to the subjective determination that, for some matters, is the rule, and for others, is the subsidiary solution. The recourse to the localization criteria of the applicable law signifies the objective determination of the law and contains variants that always lead to the identification of the lex causae. The method of concretizing the will of the parties is the choice convention of the app…

La corruzione tra privati in Italia: un bilancio critico

2017

Benché nell’ordinamento italiano abbia origini ancora relativamente recenti (risalendo al 2002 la sua introduzione), la corruzione tra privati ha da ultimo acquisito un nuovo volto con il d.lgs. n. 38/2017, che - per uniformarla allo standard europeo di incriminazione - ne amplia la portata incriminatrice sia rispetto alla platea di soggetti attivi, sia all’anticipazione della condotta illecita. Il passaggio dalla formulazione originaria, limitata all’ambito societario, all’attuale estensione a tutti gli enti privati, risponde alle esigenze di irrobustire l’azione di contrasto al fenomeno corruttivo, che continua a presentare una pervasività tale nella realtà italiana da richiedere un impeg…

Il paradigma mafioso dentro il modello della criminalità organizzata

2021

Interrogarsi sul metodo mafioso significa fare i conti con le differenti definizioni che della mafia sono state fornite, in un’ottica che non può che essere comparativa e diacronica. Non si possono, infatti, ignorare né le differenti declinazioni del modello organizzativo criminale nei diversi contesti territoriali, né la sua evoluzione nel tempo, né le modifiche intervenute con l’ampliarsi dello scenario internazionale e con la nascita delle cosiddette “nuove mafie”. Occorre, quindi, verificare gli elementi di mutazione riscontrati nelle maggiori organizzazioni criminali mafiose che operano in Italia; da una parte, spingendo l’attenzione verso gli scenari internazionali e, dall’altra, rile…

Waiting for a new leader: Eras and transitions in Cosa Nostra

2019

Partendo dal controverso dibattito che negli ultimi anni ha visto in Italia – soprattutto i mezzi di comunicazione di massa e le agenzie investigative – disputare sullo “stato di salute” delle organizzazioni criminali mafiose, quasi a volerne stilare una discutibile classifica di offensività e di pericolosità, il capitolo si interroga sull’attuale e delicata fase attraversata da Cosa Nostra, facendo ricorso a una prospettiva analitica multiproblematica e multidisciplinare (rielaborando il cosiddetto paradigma della complessità proposto da Umberto Santino alla luce dei più recenti studi e delle nuove prospettive analitiche emerse) e dando conto delle numerose ricerche (oggi spesso orientate …