Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Legislative Policy in Spain. Analysis of the Current Situation and the Challenges for a Quality Legislative Technique.- Sword or Shield? The Influence of International Organisations in Counterterrorism Law and Policy Making.- EU Law-Making Process in Criminal Matters after Lisbon. In Search of a Better EU Criminal Policy.- From Lobbying to Corruption: The Strategies of Pressure Groups to Influence the Law-Making Process.- Does Public Opinion Matter for Criminal Law? Revisable Life Imprisonment in Spain and its Relationship with Social Demands.- Perpetual Prison in Colombia. Analysis of the Legislative Initiatives for their Authorization, and the rational Arguments for their Incorporation in the Colombian Legal System.- The Influence of the Law-and-Order Model in Spanish Juvenile Criminal Lawmaking Policy.- Instrumental Rationality of the Legislator and Social Stereotypes on Crime: Models of Punitive Argumentation.- The Victim as a Client of the Penal System.- Punitiveness and Spanish Criminal Law Making Policy. Four Homogeneous Legislative Terms (1996-2011).- Brazilian Post-1988 Constitution Criminal Policies: Comparing Lawmaking with Impacts on Incarceration