Abstract This article argues that international criminal law has not adequately addressed the true dimensions and effects of forced displacement. Often protracted in time, displacement extends well beyond conduct coercively expelling individuals out territory from which they are lawfully present. Preventing those forcibly displaced returning is an essential element as a crime against humanity s...

In Iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of Legal Medicine Organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. The duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: Individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

This paper aims to give a broad overview of how South African law dealt with Cyber Crime from a common law perspective and also the new cyber crime provisions in the Electronic Communications Transactions Act, Act 25 of 2002. The paper focuses on the statutory defined crimes and then also gives provisions on the value and evidential weight of electronic data during criminal proceedings. The pap...

Legal insanity is a peculiar element of criminal law, because it brings together two very different disciplines: psychiatry and psychology on the one hand and the law on the other. One of the basic questions regarding evaluations of defendants concerns the question of who should establish "true mental disorder," the judge or the behavioral expert? This question is complicated, and in this contr...

This study is a test of the so-called subversion hypothesis, which posits that mentally disordered persons who commit minor offenses are prosecuted primarily for the purpose of imposing mental health treatment on them through evaluation and treatment for incompetency to stand trial. These persons, according to the subversion hypothesis, find themselves in the criminal process because they do no...

In the paper, after outlining criminological background, namely corporate criminality in field of core international crimes and some possible arguments favour criminal accountability corporations on an level, case law International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg so-called subsequent trials is introduced. Finally, third part devoted to examine questions codification process Statute Criminal Cour...