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What are drug courts? Do they work? Why are they so popular? Should countries be expanding them or rolling them back? These are some of the questions this volume attempts to answer. Simultaneously popular and problematic, loved and loathed, drug courts have proven an enduring topic for discussion in international drug policy debates. Starting in Miami in the 1980s and being exported enthusiastically across the world, we now have a range of international case studies to re-examine their effectiveness. Whereas traditional debates tended towards binaries like “do they work?”, this volume attempts to unpick their export and implementation, contextualising their efficacy. Instead of a simple yes or no answer, the book provides key insights into the operation of drug courts in various parts of the world. The case studies range from a relatively successful small-scale model in Australia, to the large and unwieldy business of drug courts in the US, to their failed scale-up in Brazil and the small and institutionally adrift models that have been tried in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The book concludes that although drug courts can be made to work in very specific niche contexts, the singular focus on them as being close to a “silver bullet” obscures the real issues that societies must address, including (but not limited to) a more comprehensive and full-spectrum focus on diverting drug-involved individuals away from the criminal justice system.
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"Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities, for example in Poland and Hungary, have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature in central and eastern European countries. Several political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power after the democratic transformation process in 1989/1990. These claims are explicitly or implicitly connected to the charge that courts have constrained the room for manoeuvre of the legislatures too heavily and that they have entered the field of politics. Nevertheless, the question to what extent has this aggregation of power constrained the dominant political actors has never been examined accurately and systematically in the literature. The present volume fills this gap by applying an innovative research methodology to quantify the impact and effect of court's decisions on legislation and legislators, and measure the strength of judicial decisions in six CEE countries."
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Administrative courts --- Administrative courts. --- History --- Europe. --- Germany.
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"This book explores misdemeanor courts in the United States by focusing on the processing of misdemeanor crimes and the resultant consequences of conviction, such as loss of employment and housing, the imposition of significant fines, and loss of liberty--all amounting to the criminalization of poverty that happens in many U.S. misdemeanor courts. A major concern is the lack of due process employed in lower courts. Although the seminal case of Gideon v. Wainwright required the appointment of counsel to individuals too poor to hire counsel in felony cases, it was not until 1967, when the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice found a crisis in the lower courts, that the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel to some (though not all) prosecutions of misdemeanor offenses. The first step to improving our understanding of the lower courts is a concerted effort by scholars to focus on the processing and outcomes of misdemeanor cases. This collection begins to fill the void by providing a comprehensive review of the scholarly work on the lower courts in the United States. Collecting analysis from key academics engaged in work in this area today, the book reviews the varying specialized lower criminal courts, including specialty courts that have emerged in just the last couple of decades, along with discussions of the history, legal challenges, operation, primary actors (judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, and defendants), and current research on these courts. The book explores the profound consequences misdemeanor processing has for defendants and discusses the future of the lower criminal courts and offers best practices to improve them"--
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Un ouvrage collectif sans précédent qui raconte et fait revivre les cours les plus prestigieuses à travers le monde, de l'Égypte antique à l'Europe du XXe siècle, et qui en livre l'histoire, les rites et usages. Véritable voyage dans le monde prestigieux et mystérieux des anciennes cours, ce volume offre à ses lecteurs l'insigne honneur d'être reçu à la cour de Pharaon en Égypte, à celle des empereurs de Chine et du Japon, à celle du roi des rois perse – de Darius au dernier shah d'Iran –, à celles de Rome et de Byzance, de la Sublime Porte, des Grands Moghols indiens, du Vatican, de France bien sûr, mais aussi à celles d'Angleterre, d'Autriche, d'Espagne et de Russie, ou encore dans les royaumes et principautés allemandes, scandinaves et balkaniques. Comment elles ont été constituées, comment elles ont évolué, qui les compose – famille, domesticité, dignitaires –, quel est leur écrin – Versailles, Westminster, le sérail de Constantinople, la Cité interdite de Pékin… –, quels en sont les rites et les usages – le souverain est un être sacré, devant qui la prosternation, « proskynèse » en Europe et en Asie, « kow-tow » en Chine, est de rigueur –, quels sont leurs liens ; enfin pourquoi et comment – pour la plupart – elles ont disparu : pour la première fois, les meilleurs spécialistes, réunis par Victor Battaggion et Thierry Sarmant, répondent à toutes ces interrogations et brossent d'une plume alerte et érudite l'histoire de ces cours, tout à la fois instrument et manifestation du pouvoir, de l'Égypte antique à l'Europe contemporaine.
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"Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino" by Dorothée duchesse de Dino is a collection of author's memoirs. The content revolves around the politics and government of Europe (1815-1848) as well as foreign relations of France (1830-1848). Excerpt: "They sang vaudevilles and mimicked characters with a vivacity which delighted me, as I am always afraid that they may be bored here, though I admit that their frame of mind was in complete contrast to my own. On the stroke of midnight punch was served; some tears fell into my glass when I thought of those with whom I had so often spent this anniversary."
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