Collecting to the Core--Cross-disciplinary Criminal Justice Resources

5. the Criminal Justice Response to Homicide

Bringing the perpetrators of homicide to justice and preventing impunity for those responsible for lethal violence is a core responsibility of the State. Indeed, there is international recognition1 that the State is required to provide judicial protection with regard to fundamental rights, including the right to life. An effective criminal justice system that ensures rigorous investigation, tim...

Introduction to Some of the Obstacles to Realization of Medical Criminal Justice

The sick person whose disease has been aggravated as a result of medical fault instead of getting cured by doctor and his/her pain has increased needs to be completly supporte.  Including these supports are civil and penal protections. These supports have been almost clearly determined in substantive penal code territory in Iran's legal system but what the sick person gains practically is disap...

Victorian Criminal Justice System

The criminal trial constitutes a drama performed by its leading actors (legal professionals) plus supporting actors (including spectators). How conscious and strategic are their performances? This article argues that conscious legal performativity is part of a sustained tradition of 'infotainment' with lasting implications for today's real-life courtroom dramas. The adoption of stereotypical co...

Dangerousness and Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Ethics

George Fletcher emerges in his writing, as in his life, as a colorful and highly individual figure. The last thing one expects of him is the surrender of individual identity to an anonymous submersion in the collective. Yet doctrinally he is a collectivist. In his recent writings, he has been seeking to collectivize just about everything: action, responsibility, guilt, liability, self-defense, ...