NCJ Number
151664
Editor(s)
E M Wise
Date Published
1994
Length
397 pages
Annotation
These 19 papers focus on international criminal law, criminal procedure and human rights, the uses and methods of punishment, criminology and forensic psychiatry, and the career of criminologist Gerhard Mueller.
Abstract
Individual papers examine policy issues in intergovernmental cooperation in criminal cases, models for the reform of criminal procedure in Eastern Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights and Criminal Procedure in Sweden, and the judiciary in the United States and Japan. further papers focus on humanism as a principle of criminal law, Federal and State legislation against organized crime in the United States, the future of corrections, and recent progress in the neurosciences and its implications for forensic psychiatry. Chapter reference notes and bibliogaphy of publications by Gerhard Mueller