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Guilty Minds

Author : Joseph Finder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698409750

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New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks. Nick Heller is a private spy—an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he’s called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation. Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret.

Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds

Author : William S. Laufer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226470429

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We live in an era defined by corporate greed and malfeasance—one in which unprecedented accounting frauds and failures of compliance run rampant. In order to calm investor fears, revive perceptions of legitimacy in markets, and demonstrate the resolve of state and federal regulators, a host of reforms, high-profile investigations, and symbolic prosecutions have been conducted in response. But are they enough? In this timely work, William S. Laufer argues that even with recent legal reforms, corporate criminal law continues to be ineffective. As evidence, Laufer considers the failure of courts and legislatures to fashion liability rules that fairly attribute blame for organizations. He analyzes the games that corporations play to deflect criminal responsibility. And he also demonstrates how the exchange of cooperation for prosecutorial leniency and amnesty belies true law enforcement. But none of these factors, according to Laufer, trumps the fact that there is no single constituency or interest group that strongly and consistently advocates the importance and priority of corporate criminal liability. In the absence of a new standard of corporate liability, the power of regulators to keep corporate abuses in check will remain insufficient. A necessary corrective to our current climate of graft and greed, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds will be essential to policymakers and legal minds alike. “[This] timely work offers a dispassionate analysis of problems relating to corporate crime.”—Harvard Law Review

Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds

Author : Stephen P. Garvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190924348

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When someone commits a crime, what are the limits on a state's authority to define them as worthy of blame, and thus liable to punishment? This book answers that question, building on two ideas familiar to criminal lawyers: actus reus and mens rea, usually translated as "guilty act" and "guilty mind." In Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds, Stephen P. Garvey proposes an understanding of actus reus and mens rea as limits on the authority of a state, and in particular the authority of a democratic state, to ascribe guilt to those accused of crime. Garvey argues that actus reus and mens rea are necessary conditions for legitimate state punishment. Drawing on the work of political philosophers, moral philosophers, and criminal law theorists, Garvey provides clear explanations of how these concepts apply to a wide variety of cases. The book charges readers to consider practical examples and ask: whatever you believe regarding the justice of the rules, did the state act within the scope of its legitimate authority when it enacted those rules into law? Based on extensive research, this book presents a new theory in which the concepts of actus reus and mens rea mark the limits of state power rather than simply describe the elements of a crime. Making the compelling distinction between legitimacy and justice, Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds provides an important perspective on the limits of state authority.

Bad Acts and Guilty Minds

Author : Leo Katz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226027975

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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? Strange conundrums like this one have fascinated lawyers and no lawyers for centuries, raising problems of causation, intention, negligence, necessity, duress, complicity, and attempt. With wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying these moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law. Drawing on insights from analytical philosophy and psychology, he brings order into the seemingly endless multiplicity of these puzzles: many of them turn out to be variations of a few basic philosophical problems, making their appearance in different guises. To test his arguments, Katz moves far beyond the traditional body of exemplary criminal law cases. He brings into view the decisions of common law judges in colonial and postcolonial Africa, famous cases such as the Nuremberg trials, Aaron Burr’s treason, and ABSCAM, as well as well-known incidents in fiction. Praise for Bad Acts and Guilty Minds “Bad Acts and Guilty Minds . . . revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying the vast body of statutory and case law, there is a rationale founded in basic notions of fairness and reason. . . . It will help lawyers to better serve their clients and the society that permits attorneys to hang out their shingles.” —Edward N. Costikyan, New York Times Book Review “With its novel combination of theoretical and interdisciplinary learning, its refreshingly new approach to old problems, and the easy accessibility made possible by the lightness of its style, Katz’s book should become a classic in the field for years to come. I would recommend it to beginning law students and lay persons interested in an introduction to the field, as well as to criminal law academics interested in furthering their already well-developed understanding of criminal law theory.” —Michael S. Moore, author of Law and Psychiatry: Rethinking the Relationship

Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds

Author : William S. Laufer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226470405

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Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds by William S. Laufer Pdf

We live in an era defined by corporate greed and malfeasance—one in which unprecedented accounting frauds and failures of compliance run rampant. In order to calm investor fears, revive perceptions of legitimacy in markets, and demonstrate the resolve of state and federal regulators, a host of reforms, high-profile investigations, and symbolic prosecutions have been conducted in response. But are they enough? In this timely work, William S. Laufer argues that even with recent legal reforms, corporate criminal law continues to be ineffective. As evidence, Laufer considers the failure of courts and legislatures to fashion liability rules that fairly attribute blame for organizations. He analyzes the games that corporations play to deflect criminal responsibility. And he also demonstrates how the exchange of cooperation for prosecutorial leniency and amnesty belies true law enforcement. But none of these factors, according to Laufer, trumps the fact that there is no single constituency or interest group that strongly and consistently advocates the importance and priority of corporate criminal liability. In the absence of a new standard of corporate liability, the power of regulators to keep corporate abuses in check will remain insufficient. A necessary corrective to our current climate of graft and greed, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds will be essential to policymakers and legal minds alike. “[This] timely work offers a dispassionate analysis of problems relating to corporate crime.”—Harvard Law Review

Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Author : Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ph.D.
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780307556554

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Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ph.D. Pdf

A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them. From a juvenile court in Connecticut to the psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, from maximum security prisons to the corridors of death row, Lewis and her colleague, the eminent neurologist Jonathan Pincus, search to understand the origins of violence. GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY is an utterly absorbing odyssey that will forever change the way you think about crime, punishment, and the law itself.

Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England

Author : Elizabeth Papp Kamali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498791

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Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England by Elizabeth Papp Kamali Pdf

Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.

Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs

Author : David McFarland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191578748

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Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs by David McFarland Pdf

When we interact with animals, we intuitively read thoughts and feelings into their expressions and actions - it is easy to suppose that they have minds like ours. And as technology grows more sophisticated, we might soon find ourselves interpreting the behaviour of robots too in human terms. It is natural for us to humanize other beings in this way, but is it philosophically or scientifically justifiable? How different might the minds of animals or machines be to ours? As David McFarland asks here, could robots ever feel guilty, and is it correct to suppose your dog can truly be happy? Can we ever know what non-human minds might be like, or will the answer be forever out of our reach? These are central and important questions in the philosophy of mind, and this book is an accessible exploration of the differing philosophical positions that can be taken on the issue. McFarland looks not only at philosophy, but also examines new evidence from the science of animal behaviour plus the latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence, to show how many different - and sometimes surprising - conclusions we can draw about the nature of 'alien minds'.

The Fixer

Author : Joseph Finder
Publisher : Dutton
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451472571

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When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril, and change everything he thought he knew about his father.

Guilty Mind

Author : Irene Marcuse
Publisher : Walker
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802733549

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Shortly after Manhattan resident Benno Servi walks Ellen Chapman, a young, black Columbia graduate back to her apartment, she is found stabbed to death with the screwdriver that Benno had given her, leading him to become the prime suspect in the murder of his and his wife's babysitter.

Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds

Author : Stephen P. Garvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190924324

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"You can't be convicted of a crime without a guilty act and a guilty mind." A lawyer might dress the same idea up in Latin: "You can't be convicted of a crime without actus reus and mens rea." Things like that are often said, but what do people mean when they say them? Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds proposes an understanding of mens rea and actus reus as limits on the authority of a state, and in particular the authority of a democratic state, to ascribe guilt through positive law to those accused of crime. Actus reus and mens rea are necessary conditions, among others, for the legitimacy, as distinct from the justice, of state punishment. The actus reus requirement disables a democratic state from using its authority, on the one hand, to ascribe guilt to those who didn't realize they were committing a crime, provided they lacked the capacity to realize they were committing a crime; and on the other, to ascribe guilt to those who realized they were committing a crime, but who lacked the capacity to conform their conduct to the requirements of law. The mens rea requirement disables a democratic state from using its authority, on the one hand, to ascribe guilt to those who didn't realize they were committing a crime, provided their ignorance manifested no lack of law-abiding concern for the law and its ends, and on the other, to ascribe guilt to those who realized they were committing a crime, but whose failure to conform to the law nonetheless manifested no lack of law-abiding concern for the law and its ends"--

Unimaginable Atrocities

Author : William Schabas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199653072

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Unimaginable Atrocities by William Schabas Pdf

As international criminal justice has grown in prominence, so have the challenges facing it. This book discusses the unresolved questions and dilemmas confronted by international war crimes courts. These include the controversies surrounding prosecutorial policy, the tension between peace and justice, and accusations of victor's justice.

Suspicion

Author : Joseph Finder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784081249

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Lie to your daughter. Betray your friend. Trust no-one. His nightmare began with a quick handshake and a friendly smile... Danny Goodman would do anything for his teenage daughter Abby. So when his wife dies, and he can no longer afford the school she adores, he borrows money from Thomas Galvin, a well-known millionaire, and the father of Abby's best friend. But on the day he takes the loan, the authorities turn up at his door. Thomas Galvin is a wanted criminal – and they need Danny's help to bring him down. Now Danny is in an impossible dilemma. He can either go to prison for accepting dirty money, or he can go undercover in a dangerous sting operation to betray his new best friend... Recent reviews for Joseph Finder: 'Stunning... I can't remember when I last read a book so gripping and so satisfying' PETER JAMES. 'Smart, swift and well-informed' SCOTT TUROW. 'Terrific' IAN RANKIN. 'A writer at the top of his game' MARK BILLINGHAM. 'Fantastic... Kept me absolutely on the edge of my seat' MARTINA COLE. 'Timely, twisty and impossible to put down' KARIN SLAUGHTER. 'A masterclass in ratcheting up the tension... A classy, sophisticated thriller' J.P. DELANEY.

Proven Guilty

Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101128619

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Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City. As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend—all grown up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago, but it’s all in a day’s work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob...

New Media Landscape and Dimensions: An Indian Perspective

Author : Sayak Pal,Noveena Chakravorty,Dr. Sharmila Kayal,Aijaz Ahmad Mir,Dr. A. Nageswara Rao,Arunav Baruah,Bharti Kumari Jha,Debarshi Bhattacharyya,Dr. Afaq Ahmad,Ms. Linumol B.,Kamalicka Das,Keshav Vivek,Priyanka Singh,Prof. Ritesh Ranjan,Roopam Paul,Namrata Devi,Rajesh Chutia,Dr.phil Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee,Shadman Alam,Parmita Dhar,Doyel Dutta,Jyoti Dutta,Ugyal Tshering Lama Yolmo,Swarnavo Das,Dr. Manju Sharma,Dr. Amrendra Kumar Sharma
Publisher : School of Media and Communication, Adamas University
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788196340216

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New Media Landscape and Dimensions: An Indian Perspective by Sayak Pal,Noveena Chakravorty,Dr. Sharmila Kayal,Aijaz Ahmad Mir,Dr. A. Nageswara Rao,Arunav Baruah,Bharti Kumari Jha,Debarshi Bhattacharyya,Dr. Afaq Ahmad,Ms. Linumol B.,Kamalicka Das,Keshav Vivek,Priyanka Singh,Prof. Ritesh Ranjan,Roopam Paul,Namrata Devi,Rajesh Chutia,Dr.phil Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee,Shadman Alam,Parmita Dhar,Doyel Dutta,Jyoti Dutta,Ugyal Tshering Lama Yolmo,Swarnavo Das,Dr. Manju Sharma,Dr. Amrendra Kumar Sharma Pdf

The relevance of different particles of new media has become prevalent across the World, and India is a nation with enormous opportunities and rapid growth, especially in the media sector, which is responding to its magnanimity with advanced technology, innovative content, and rapid production rate. Traditional media outlets are facing extensive competition with the news media platforms in this race of existence and often evolve into something more acceptable, innovative, and compelling version of their old self. The book “New Media Landscape and Dimensions: an Indian Perspective” provides an extensive review of various new media perspectives and concepts that shape the public and individual opinion like OTT, Social media, artificial intelligence, digital literacy, political campaigning on digital platforms, online privacy, post-globalization, memes, IoT, gender sensitization, digital disruption, public perception, animation, and many more. The combined efforts of twenty authors and their expertise make this book a complete guide for people which to get an understanding of the dimensions of new media.