This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of ‘human being’. On these two notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure of ‘human rights’. It explores how the law understands the concept of a human being, and hence a person who is entitled to human rights. This involves a discussion of the legal treatment of those of so…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Unique Challenges of Reentry for Convicted Sex Offenders -- Chapter 3. A Family Systems Perspective in Prisoner Reentry -- Chapter 4. Root and Rebound -- Chapter 5. What Works in Reentry and How to Improve Outcomes -- Chapter 6. Can Released Prisoners “Make it”? -- Chapter 7. Employment Isn't Enough -- Epilogue.This book addresses the core issues in pri…
1. Historical Evolution of Sex Offender Risk Management; Hazel Kemshall -- 2. Public Health, Prevention and Risk Management; Jon Brown -- 3. Public Education, Prevention and Risk Management; Joan Tabachnick, Kieran Mccartan -- 4. Preventive Sentencing; Nicola Padfield -- 5. “An Exceptional Sentence”; Yvonne Gailey, Lesley Martin, Rachel Webb -- 6. Panic or Placebo?; Andy Williams -- 7. Buil…
1. Behavioural Crime Linkage And Multi-Agency Working; Leah. Ashmore-Hills, Amy. Burrell, Matthew Tonkin -- 2. Assessment Of Risk To Sexually Reoffend; Robin Wilson, Jeffrey C. Sandler -- 3. Critical Reflections On The Risk-Based Prevention Of Sexual Offending By Young People; Stephen Case -- 4. Managing Sexual And Violent Offenders Across Eu Borders; Sarah Hilder -- 5. Online Sex Offending And…
Part I International Protection of Consumers: trends and challenges: Dan Wei, Consumer Protection in the Global Context: the Present Status and Some New Trends -- Ana Candida Muniz and Hector Santana, The UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection: review and next -- Gail Pearson, The UNGCP Guidelines – Some Comments -- Fabiana D´Andrea Ramos and Vitor Hugo do Amaral Ferreira, Common Law and Inte…
Introduction: Victim Participation in International Criminal Justice -- The Application Process: Procedure and Players -- Requirements for Victim Participation -- The Role of Intermediaries and Third Parties in Victim Participation -- Legal Representation of Participating Victims -- The Protection of Victims Participating in International Criminal Justice -- Victims’ Rights and Obligations as…
Part I Obligations arising from contracts: Formation of the contract -- Public promise -- Form of the contract -- Standard terms -- Content of the contract -- Abstract acknowledgement of debt -- Contract interpretation and simulation -- Incomplete contracts -- Revision of the contract (hardship) -- Mistake, fraud and duress -- Unfair exploitation (lesion) -- Agency -- Part II The effect of obli…
Chapter 1: Introduction (Peter Langford, Ian Bryan and John McGarry) -- Part I: Legal Science Before The Tribunal Of Validity.-Chapter 2: Hans Kelsen and the Social Fact Thesis (Lorenz Kähler).-Chapter 3: Natural Law and the Nature of Law: Kelsen’s Paradox (Pierre-Yves Quiviger) -- Part II: Beyond Natural Law? -- Chapter 4: Natural Law Systematics: Is There a ‘Grundnorm’ in Natural Law? …
Applied Cryptography -- Fast Contract Signing with Batch Oblivious Transfer -- An Instruction Set Extension for Fast and Memory-Efficient AES Implementation -- Self-healing Key Distribution Schemes with Sponsorization -- DRM & E-Commerce -- Effective Protection Against Phishing and Web Spoofing -- Identity Based DRM: Personal Entertainment Domain -- Rights and Trust in Multimedia Information Ma…
to Stream Data Management -- Query Execution and Optimization -- Filtering, Punctuation, Windows and Synopses -- XML & Data Streams -- CAPE: A Constraint-Aware Adaptive Stream Processing Engine -- Efficient Support for Time Series Queries in Data Stream Management Systems -- Managing Distributed Geographical Data Streams with the GIDB Portal System -- Streaming Data Dissemination Using Peer-Pee…