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Free Download Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts By Aaron Kupchik
2007 | 211 Pages | ISBN: 0814747744 | PDF | 4 MB
2007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in CriminologyBy comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal (adult) courts, Aaron Kupchik finds that prosecuting adolescents in criminal court does not fit with our cultural understandings of youthfulness. As a result, adolescents who are transferred to criminal courts are still judged as juveniles. Ultimately, Kupchik makes a compelling argument for the suitability of juvenile courts in treating adolescents. Judging Juveniles suggests that justice would be better served if adolescents were handled by the system designed to address their special needs.

Free Download Manfred Gerstenfeld, "Judging the Netherlands: The Renewed Holocaust Restitution Process, 1997-2000"
English | 2011 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 9652180971 | PDF | 2,7 mb
In the last years of the twentieth century, the many shortcomings of the postwar Dutch Holocaust restitution became a major issue in the Dutch public debate. The internationally publicized failures of the Swiss banks regarding dormant bank accounts from the war period prompted investigations elsewhere as well, including in the Netherlands. A further stimulus came when many index cards of the Dutch looting bank LIRO, listing the stolen possessions of individual Jews, were found abandoned in an Amsterdam attic.

Free Download Jan Wolenski, "From the Act of Judging to the Sentence: The Problem of Truth Bearers from Bolzano to Tarski"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1402033966, 9048168538 | PDF | pages: 257 | 2.4 mb
IN MEMORIAM OF ARTUR ROJSZCZAK For a teacher, the opportunity to write the Foreword to a student’s work gives rise to a sense offul?lment and pride. In this case, however, although the latter remains, the former has been effaced.Inawell-ordered world Artur Rojszczak would have perhaps one day written tributes to ourselves. It isapoignant paradox when teachers are called upon to comment posthumously on thework of one of their students. This is a terrible task whichfalls to us―who have been not only mentors and colleagues to Artur, but also simply friends―of eulogizing someone who has died so soon, and so tragically. Artur was killed, together with his father, by an aggressive neighbour on September 27, 2001. Artur’s wife was severely injured in the same attack. Artur was born on March 12, 1968 in S?ubice (close to the Polish-German border). He studied in the Electronics College in Zielona Góra, graduating in 1987. But from very early on his dream was to study philosophy, and to do so at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow; no other place was considered by him seriously. He entered the university in 1988.

Free Download Chloé Deambrogio, "Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court "
English | ISBN: 1503630323 | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts’ assessments of defendants’ mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors’ interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways.

Free Download Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303134510X | 325 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.4 MB
This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural circumstances that separate us.