There is at present a good deal of alarm, both in government and the community generally, concerning the level of violence in Australian society. Although the incidence of murder has in fact remained quite stable for many years, it remains the subject of widespread public anxiety and persistent media coverage. Serial murder in particular, because of its savagery and apparently random nature, ca...

The importance of this study is to understand how Indonesian military court asserts its jurisdiction over military members who commit general crimes within the Indonesian military judiciary system in comparison to other countries. This research employs a normative-juridical approach in combination with historical and comparative-juridical approaches. The research specification is analytical-des...

In 2004, Green and Ward pointed out that ‘criminology has largely ignored the crime of torture’ (2004: 125; see also Stanley, 2008). The years following 9/11 included profound developments in the study of torture, namely in response to intensifications in torture debates related to the so-called ‘war on terror’, and in the use of ‘clean’ torture (see Kelly, 2012; Rejali, 2007). Simultaneously, ...

Background. Recent research has proposed that environmental factors affect the development of expertise. Objectives. The present study aimed to compare the history of training activities amongst expert athletes of different sport disciplines regarding the level of risk. Methods. Participants included 187 athletes from six sports disciplines, which were allocated to "low-risk," "medium risk," o...

Discriminating between two speed signals is harder when they are seen as part of a single trajectory, compared to the case when they appear as distinct entities. Observers were asked to judge which half of a display had dots that were moving faster. This was done under two main conditions: when dot motion appeared to continue across the boundary between the two halves, and when it moved paralle...

The foundation of the judiciary in Indonesia is a based on Pancasila which places human dignity its place and carries out protection guarantee rights. In making decision, judge's decision must always be case delegation letter containing all charges for defendant's guilt. judge able to process data obtained during trial terms evidence, witness statements, defense defendant, as well prosecutors' ...