This Article addresses an issue related to criminal procedures conducted by video-conferencethis is a clear development over the traditional confrontational procedures. latter means effective presence of suspect at stage inquiry, as well investigation, especially during trial stage. In this way, form non-adversarial raises with regard guarantees fair such right defense and confrontation, even b...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic search of the literature for studies that estimated the prevalence/incidence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in correctional systems in different countries and, based on these data, to estimate a) the number of people with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/FASD within the criminal justice system population, and b) the relat...

Who is this report for? The audience for this report is broad, but will be of particular interest to commissioners and practitioners working in the fields of criminal justice, health and social care. It is also of great relevance to policy-makers with an interest in crime prevention and health improvement. What is the Transition to Adulthood Alliance? The Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance ...

The conditions under which an individual accused of a crime can remain at liberty prior to the resolution of the criminal charge against him have evolved over time in the American system of criminal justice.' For most of this country's history, pretrial release conditions were almost exclusively defined in financial terms, i.e., the amount of "bail" a defendant or his surety was required to ple...

This article examines the legal implications linked to recent scientific research on human consciousness. The article contends that groundbreaking revelations about consciousness expose the frailties of the criminal law's traditional dual dichotomies of conscious versus unconscious thought processes and voluntary versus involuntary acts. These binary doctrines have no valid scientific foundatio...

The expansion of the US carceral state has been accompanied by the emergence of what we call the ‘shadow carceral state’. Operating beyond the confines of criminal law and justice institutions, the shadow carceral state expands penal power through institutional annexation and legal hybridity, including: (1) increased civil and administrative pathways to incarceration; (2) the creation of civil ...

BACKGROUND Conduct problems are common, disabling and costly. The prognosis for children with conduct problems is poor, with outcomes in adulthood including criminal behaviour, alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and a range of psychiatric disorders. There has been a rapid expansion of group based parent-training programmes for the treatment of children with conduct problems ...

The widespread phenomenon of enacting HIV-specific laws to criminally punish transmission of, exposure to, or non-disclosure of HIV, is counter-active to good public health conceptions and repugnant to elementary human rights principles. The authors provide ten reasons why criminal laws and criminal prosecutions are bad strategy in the epidemic.

The Report on " The Criminal Law and Sexual Offenders prepared by the Joint Committee on Psychiatry and the Law appointed by the British Medical Association and the Magistrates Association, focuses attention upon a part, and perhaps not the most important, of the larger problem of the medical treatment of crime. It will be generally accepted that unless the matter is viewed in perspective, and ...