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"The Hemp Handbook: Understanding the Laws of Hemp, CBD, and Marijuana" is an enlightening guide penned by renowned attorney Mark Nicholson. With his legal experience, Nicholson navigates the complex landscape of laws governing hemp, CBD, and marijuana.
The book serves as a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding the intricacies of the rapidly evolving cannabis industry. From growers and consumers to entrepreneurs and investors, Nicholson's...
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El órgano judicial penal y el penalista académico, a diferentes niveles de abstracción, persiguen un mismo objetivo. El primero tiene que dar con la mejor solución del caso. El segundo, sin referirlo a un caso en concreto, tiene que ofrecer la regla que proporcione la mejor solución de un grupo de casos. Ahora bien, ¿Cuál es la mejor solución y cómo se construye la mejor regla? Los estudios que se recogen en este volumen responden al intento...
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The author of “Ill-Gotten Gains” uses philosophy and psychology to examine how human behavior can be questioned under criminal law.
Henri plans a trek through the desert. Alphonse, intending to kill Henri, puts poison into his canteen. Gaston also intends to kill Henri but has no idea what Alphonse has been up to. He puncture's Henri's canteen, and Henri dies of thirst. Who has caused Henri's death? Was it Alphonse? Gaston? Or neither?
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Catear Derecho Constitucional en la educación superior es una experiencia capaz de hacerte llorar a moco tendido, pero tras una breve lectura puedes terminar cogiéndole aprecio a dicha asignatura, hasta cariño si me apuras.
Mediante una combinación de anécdotas personales, teoría resumida que te resultaría un auténtico tostón si la tuvieras que estudiar en un manual jurídico, y respuestas a cuestiones de actualidad utilizando nuestra Constitución...
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Erbschaft-/Schenkungsteuer fällt immer an, wenn Vermögen ohne Gegenleistung übertragen wird und der Wert des Vermögens bestimmte Freibeträge übersteigt. Diese Beträge hängen vom Verwandtschaftsverhältnis zwischen Schenker und Beschenktem ab.
In diesem Beitrag lesen Sie u.a.:
- welche Vermögensübertragungen besteuert werden;
- welche Übertragungen steuerfrei bleiben;
- wie hoch die persönlichen Freibeträge abhängig vom Verwandtschaftsverhältnis...
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With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science-it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question...
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An examination of the forces and events that led to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history
Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, organized crime grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services and by obtaining control...
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Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them.
As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policies....
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Get the Summary of Ann Rule's Heart Full of Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Heart Full of Lies" delves into the perplexing murder case that shook the serene "Oregon Alps." In 2000, district attorney Dan Ousley faced a confounding murder in Wallowa County, where undersheriff Rich Stein discovered a body by the Lostine River. Liysa Ann Northon, the wife of the deceased, claimed self-defense against her husband,...
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El libro documenta un hecho histórico nunca antes revelado en sus detalles: la estrategia que determinó la extradición del expresidente Alberto Fujimori al Perú. El relato se ubica entre los años 2005 y 2006, periodo en que Fujimori abandonó territorio japonés luego de casi cinco años de permanencia, para aterrizar intempestivamente en Chile el 6 de noviembre de 2005.
Al dejar su cómoda residencia en Japón, el entonces prófugo Fujimori...
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A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty. Starting from the detailed case study of a single prominent ruling, the authors provide a masterful survey of important issues facing society in the area of animal...
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Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.
It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's professional experience, Busted! is everything you need to know about the criminal justice system, Drug War style, before it's too late. Like a Law & Order episode, the book takes the reader through a...
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The question of whether dogs should be allowed off the leash in public places has become a major political issue in cities and suburbs across the United States. In the last two decades, "leash-law disputes" have burst upon the political scene and have been debated with an intensity usually reserved for such hot-button issues as abortion and gun rights. This book investigates what has changed in American community life, social mores, and the relationship...
14) Crimes of Honor: Formal and Informal Adjudicatory Systems in India and Pakistan to Enforce and Co
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This study presents a comparative analysis of the formal and informal legal systems in India and Pakistan in relation to honour crimes. The two countries share a common historical context that is reflected in their socio-cultural ethos. This study analyses the commonalities in their historical contexts, the invasion of the subcontinent, the intrusion and inclusion of foreign settlers, and the factors that contributed towards the creation and maintenance...
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Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award
The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement
In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked computers link analysts and police officers to a wealth of law enforcement intelligence.
This is just a...
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Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass
From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engagements...
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Alex Peterson as he navigates the harrowing aftermath of being falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. Set against the backdrop of a legal system fraught with complexities and injustices, this compelling narrative delves deep into the complexities of trust, resilience, and the pursuit of justice in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police...
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La obra aborda la noción de ilícitos atípicos desde dos ideas fundamentales. La primera es que las tres figuras del abuso del derecho, el fraude de ley y la desviación de poder obedecen a una misma lógica. Y la otra es que lo que caracteriza a los ilícitos atípicos (frente a los ilícitos típicos) es su oposición a los principios (pero no a las reglas) del sistema jurídico.
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De la obra de Cesare Beccaria se ha escrito que «fermentó en las conciencias, renovó las instituciones y cambió las costumbres, hasta convertirse en patrimonio moral, inconsciente pero irrenunciable, de toda la humanidad». En ella, escrita con apenas veinticinco años, catalizó un buen conocimiento de las atrocidades del proceso penal de la época; una imaginación sensible y vigorosa capaz de conferir a la denuncia inéditas plasticidad y eficacia;...