Special Criminal Offender: Comparative-Legal Aspect

Offender Profiling And Criminal Differentiation

Argument. ‘Offender profiling’ is taken to be the derivation of inferences about a criminal from aspects of the crime(s) s/he has committed. For this process to move beyond deduction based on personal opinion and anecdote to an empirically based science a number of aspects of criminal activity need to be distinguished and examined. The notion of a hierarchy of criminal differentiation is introd...

State Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Ex-Offender Mobility

In Connectedness and Its Discontents, Dan Markel pays me the distinct honor of critiquing my recent article, Horizontal Federalism in an Age of Criminal Justice Interconnectedness. There, I examined the challenges faced by states as they seek to apply their registration and recidivist enhancement laws to exoffenders who, having discharged their penal commitments, migrate to other states. As I e...

Legal Risk, Legal Evidence and the Arithmetic of Criminal Justice

It is argued that the standard way that the criminal justice debate regarding the permissible extent of wrongful convictions is cast is fundamentally flawed. In particular, it is claimed that there is an inherent danger in focussing our attention in this debate on different ways of measuring the probabilistic likelihood of wrongful conviction and then evaluating whether these probabilities are ...

Legal and Ethical Principles of Criminalization in Iran’s Criminal Law

Background: The criminal code is the rules that restrict the rights and freedoms of a person to ensure peaceful coexistence. What behavior should be prohibited and which one can be removed from the circle of legal acts. How can the word ethics in the world of law refer to ethical and literary means from the past, and is called the tradition of morality, in the sense of moral standards? On the b...

Legal pitfalls to avoid in criminal interrogations.