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Overview Of Environmental Criminal Investigations, Beau James Brock
Overview Of Environmental Criminal Investigations, Beau James Brock
Beau James Brock
Power point presentation overview of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Criminal Investigation Division investigative guidelines and procedures.
Punishing Cruelly: Punishment, Cruelty, And Mercy, Paulo Barrozo
Punishing Cruelly: Punishment, Cruelty, And Mercy, Paulo Barrozo
Paulo Barrozo
What is cruelty? How and why does it matter? What do the legal rejection of cruelty and the requirements of mercy entail? This essay asks these questions of Lucius Seneca, who first articulated an agent-based conception of cruelty in the context of punishment. The hypothesis is submitted that the answers to these questions offered in Seneca's De clementia constitute one of the turning points in the evolution of practical reason in law. I conclude, however, by arguing that even the mainstream punitive practices of contemporary western societies fail to meet the modest imperatives of the rejection of cruelty and the …
Drugs And Justice, Erik Luna, Margaret Battin
In Defense Of "Self-Defence In Criminal Law"; And On "Killing In Self-Defence" - A Reply To Fiona Leverick, Boaz Sangero
In Defense Of "Self-Defence In Criminal Law"; And On "Killing In Self-Defence" - A Reply To Fiona Leverick, Boaz Sangero
Prof. Boaz Sangero
Recently, Fiona Leverick published a review of my book, Self-Defence in Criminal Law. In the same year that my book was released, Leverick published her own monograph on this subject, Killing in Self-Defence. We basically take two different approaches to the subject of self-defense. One approach seeks only “permission” for killing and views the right to life as a sufficient rationale. The other approach seeks a justification for self-defense and proposes a more complex rationale suited to all cases of self-defense and not just the extreme situation of a life versus a life. This rationale is based on three main …