Recalling that the Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offendersrecommended that the United Nations should c...
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienablerights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, ju...
Presents data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) on trends in the percentage of serious violent crime victims who received help or ad...
This monograph explores different psychological (e.g., depression, anger, or anxiety) and behavioral responses (e.g., not fighting back during a rape,...
The beginnings of the idea of mediation are connected with solving penalconflicts through the settlement of case through negotiation between victim an...
Presentation made at the The 10th annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors held in Copenhagen, Denmark on...
By the early 1800 the United States of had nearly completed its task of separatingcriminal legal proceedings from civil proceedings, and effectively m...
This study was commissioned by the Department of Justice Canada. It is one of the few studies of its kind in the country. The researchers hope that it...
La presente investigación tratará de dar un marco teórico mediante el que, y por medio de las experiencias de decenas de trabajadoras y trabajadores d...
This paper analyses the repercussions of the high level of criminal violence in Latin America on the economy of the countries of the region. The theor...
Recent research on human rights has examined the relationship between violent dissent and repression in democracies. Yet, it has not examined whether ...
Even a cursory review of daily newspaper headlines and conversations throughout Latin Americaand the Caribbean reveals that the subject of violence is...
En el caso de la violencia contra la mujer, en Honduras se cuenta con una ley civil contra la violencia doméstica, y con una ley penal contra la viole...
Dentro del marco de la Ley 9283 que aborda la problemática de la Violencia Familiar, se generaron una importante cantidad de datos referentes a este f...
El documento trata sobre los crímenes cometidos durante las dos décadas en que estuvo a la cabeza del gobierno Alberto Fujimori, como consecuencia de ...
La idea original de este estudio, fue de evaluar el nivel de satisfacción y la percepción del sistema penal y jurídico chileno en un vasto número de v...
A lo largo de sus ocho capítulos, esta obra analiza la importancia de la ComisiónInteramericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) y de la Corte Interamerican...
Presentation made at the The 10th annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors held in Copenhagen, Denmark on...
This article examines states’ decisions to commit to human rights treaties. It argues that the effect of a treaty on a state—and hence the state’s wil...