Dealing with climate change and environmental issues must begin the acceptance of position that crisis is equivalent to economic, political, or health crisis, which typically focus our political legal apparatus. It has such a broad scope it exceeds level individual right healthy environment cannot be measured solely through lens concretely determined cases violation. Its visible consequences ju...

The authors presented an analysis of homicides based on autopsy material collected at Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bialystok in the years 1982-2003. Of 8,780 postmortem examinations, this type of death accounted for 7,4 % of cases, including 31,2 % women and 68,8 % men. Married individuals predominated among females, whereas the majority of male victims were single. Fifty-seven percent of ...

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Men are more often victims of events like car accidents or (violent) crimes than women with the sole exception of sexual assault. Based on the theory of sexual selection, it has been argued that these sex differences in both perpetration and victimization rates can be attributed to sex differences in risk taking and short-term orientation. Men are expected to be more risk prone than women becau...

There are a variety of ways that one could examine feminist contributions to anthropology and sociology within the context of a handbook on philosophy of science. The first and most obvious is to simply catalogue the various contributions that feminism has made to each of these disciplines, in part through the increasing presence of women in these fields. Sandra Harding refers to this approach ...

The purpose of the article is to analyze victimological prevention crimes in field physical culture and sports. authors have carried out a general analysis crimes. defined list crimes, commission which directly resulted physical, material or moral damage athletes, dividing them into crimes: victims are exclusively athletes both ordinary citizens athletes. Based on motivation, accomplished class...

The article is devoted to the topic of studying methods that effectively investigate problem latent victimization population state. A victim a person who has actually suffered from crime, but for certain reasons this fact remained hidden official records. Therefore, victims should also include are law gave right choose whether or not report crime occurred (cases so-called private prosecution). ...

Background: With the idea of victim protection emerging and the emergence of supportive victimology in the twentieth century, the forgotten position of the victim in the criminal process has been restored and its findings expressed in the form of universal standards for victim protection. Support for the victim is indispensable and indisputable in criminal proceedings. This support has various ...