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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Federal Crime Control Issues in the 111th Congress* -- Summary -- Introduction -- Crime Statistics2 -- Violent Crime Rate -- Property Crime Rate -- Violent Crime Control -- Hate Crimes6 -- Gangs14 -- Gun Control24 -- Combating Fraud and Theft -- Identity Theft31 -- Organized Retail Crime -- Drug Control -- Sentencing Reform50 -- Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparities -- Early Release -- State and Local Justice Assistance -- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)67 -- Juvenile Justice71 -- Witness Protection Program -- Criminal Justice System Review -- End Notes -- DC Gun Laws and Proposed Amendments* -- Summary -- Introduction -- Overview of Congressional and DC Legislation -- Analysis of DC Gun Laws under the Proposed Amendments -- Authority of DC to Promulgate Rules -- DC Semiautomatic Ban -- Registration Requirements, Ammunition Sales, -- and Interstate Purchases -- Registration -- Ammunition Sales and Registration -- Interstate Transfers of Firearms -- Trigger Lock Requirement -- Criminal Penalties for Possession of Unregistered Firearms -- Regulating Inoperable Pistols and Harmonizing -- Definitions for Certain Types of Firearms -- Prohibitions of Firearms from Private -- and Sensitive Public Property -- Regulating the Carrying and Transport of Firearms -- Carrying of Firearms -- Transportation of Firearms -- Toy and Antique Pistols -- Providing Jurisdiction to Office of Administrative Hearings -- Additional District Provisions that Would Be Affected by the Congressional Proposals -- Qualifications and Duties for Dealers of Firearms -- Transfer or Sale by Non-Dealers and by Licensed Dealers -- Assault Weapons/Handgun Roster -- Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Devices -- Waiting Period -- Microstamping and Discharge of Firearms -- End Notes

In the first book to expose the role played by the international financial services industry in facilitating crime and laundering criminal property, one of the world's leading anti-financial crime specialists scrutinises the vulnerability of banks, brokerages, trust companies, and investment funds to criminal abuse. Discover: - How the finance industry enables corruption, drug trafficking, terrorism, human trafficking, proliferation, piracy, and tax evasion - Why extreme and dangerous industry behaviour correlates with the risk taking that toppled the global economy in 2008 - What measures can be taken to prevent criminals from compromising the legitimacy of the global financial system Examining the role of the traditional powerhouse financial centres as well as offshore centres and rapidly emerging international financial centres in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, this highly informative book challenges the reader to consider whether following the 2008 crisis, sufficient steps have been taken to address toxic behaviours in financial services; or whether radical reform is needed.

Contents: Aggressive crimes, by Ronald H. Beattie and John P. Kenney; Violence and organized crime, by Gilbert Geis; Violent crimes in city gangs, by Walter B. Miller; Violence in prison, by John P. Conrad.

The paper is concerned with the modern concept of the criminal policy of the Russian state from the standpoint of determining the main directions of improving the criminal and criminal procedural law.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Criminal versus Quasi-criminal Enforcement - Setting the Scene -- PART I: THE ORIGINS OF QUASI-CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS: A COMPARATIVE JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE -- 1. The Origin and Development of Quasi-criminal Enforcement Mechanisms in Europe: Nordic Perspective -- 2. Swiss Peculiarities of the Enforcement Mechanisms in Core, Secondary and Administrative Criminal Law -- 3. Quasi-criminal Enforcement Mechanisms in Germany: Past and Present -- 4. Quasi-criminal Sanctions in Central Europe - Their Origins and Evolution -- 5. The Interplay between Criminal and Quasi-criminal Enforcement Mechanisms in the UK Context Explored through the Prism of 'Market Abuse': Current Approaches and Historical Perspectives -- PART II: CRIMINAL, CIVIL, ADMINISTRATIVE … WHAT'S IN A NAME? DISENTANGLING CONCEPTS, SELECTED TOPICS -- A. General Part of Criminal Law -- 6. Quasi-criminal Enforcement in Criminal Law and Penal Theory: What Would Herbert Packer Say? -- 7. Four Dimensions of Nulla Poena Sine Culpa: The Principle of Individual Culpability in Contexts of Criminal and Quasi-criminal Law Enforcement in Europe -- 8. Non-conviction Based Confiscation: Moving the Confiscation of Criminal Proceeds from the Criminal to the 'Civil' Sphere: Benefits, Issues and Two Procedural Aspects -- B. Special Part of Criminal Law -- 9. 'Crimmigration' and Human Rights: Immigration Detention at the European Court of Human Rights -- 10. Cartel Offences: Quasi-criminal Enforcement for Criminal Behaviour? -- 11. Protection of Procedural Rights in Administrative and Criminal Proceedings: The Case of the Privilege against Self-incrimination in Belgian Customs Law -- PART III: TOWARD A MORE COHERENT TERMINOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK IN EUROPE.

This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability through an examination of three types of organisation: corporate actors in the field of business activity, states and governments, and delinquent or criminal organisations. It considers both the respective roles of individuals and organisations, and the allocation of criminal responsibility to these different kinds of actor.