We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety. The book looks behind the scenes of our panic-stricken culture and into anxious minds, asking who and what is responsible. Putting anxiety on the couch, the book asks some much-needed questions. The conclusion of the book is that anxiety is a human phenomena which should not easily be taken as an obstacle to people's lives. The paradox, however, is that all the public talk about anxiety actually increases the feelings of panic among the people.
COBISS.SI-ID: 235481600
It is a review of the ways of conceptualization of the relationship between restorative justice and the criminal law. He concludes that restorative justice is more effective in achieving a preventive effect. He is, however, convinced that criminal law will have to retain certain essential functions: “if restorative justice is to replace the classical criminal justice... , it will still keep some link with coercive and fact-finding elements.... In that part, it will have to guarantee protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms to the person accused and to anyone else involved.”
COBISS.SI-ID: 1173838
This book is the first comprehensive review of juvenile justice published since Klein’s (1984) review of juvenile justice in eight western countries. In particular, essential differences in Juvenile Justice approaches are found between the Anglo-Saxon countries on one hand and continental Europe on the other. The former have a more formal ‘justice’ approach, with a strong emphasis on the juvenile’s accountability, ‘just desert’-principles, and retribution, while the latter are still operating with a ‘welfare’ philosophy, of which the German law and practice is perhaps the best example.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1088334
The publication tackles the “social control”, i.e. formal and informal, proactive and reactive “mechanisms” (structures/processes, institutions, organizations and activities) that sanctions deviations (including crimes) and (re)produce social order (socialized individuals and “socially desirable” behaviour). The topic is described and explained in the light of post-modern transitions, as for instance “the crisis of work”, “the crisis of national state” and finally “the crisis of criminal justice system”.
COBISS.SI-ID: 232673024
The chapter is based on the idea of mutual recognition of judicial decisions which is a leading principle in the area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) conducting the police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. Its purpose is to analyse consequences of this principle in the very sensitive area of criminal record exchange. Among the three possible options, considering especially the data protection issues, the authors opt for a middle way between a centralised base on the EU level on one side and national systems on the other; namely the networking of national criminal record offices.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1187918