Liability to International Prosecution: The Nature of Universal Jurisdiction

The paper considers the proper method for theorizing about criminal jurisdiction. It challenges a received understanding of how to substantiate the right to punish, and articulates an alternative account of how that theoretical task is properly conducted. The received view says that a special relationship is the ground of a tribunal’s authority to prosecute and, hence, that a normative theory of that authority is faced with identifying a distinctive relation. The alternative account locates prosecutorial standing on an institution’s capacity to address the basic reasons generating criminal liability. This reframes the normative issues at stake, and has the result that various, perhaps quite heterogeneous, considerations can substantiate penal authority. It also eliminates the existence of a special relation as a necessary condition for legitimate criminal accountability. The argument proceeds by offering an analysis and account of universal jurisdiction. Not only does the alternative elegantly perform where the received view struggles, it can accommodate much of what motivates the pursuit of relational ties in existing efforts to vindicate jurisdictional conclusions

I Knew There Was Something Wrong with That Paper : Scientific Rhetorical Styles and Scientific Misunderstandings

This selection unpacks scientific prose and claim substantiation for Nobel Prize winner, Stan Prusiner, in the transmissible spongiform encephlopathies field (i.e., mad cow disease). Applying linguistic strategies such as M. A. K. Halliday\u27s favorite clause type, the author examines argumentative strategies in dense scientific prose both in bold and cautious rhetorical styles and invented lexical changes in new scientific development

The changing role of probation hostels: voices from the inside

Probation Approved Premises (hereafter referred to by their earlier and informal moniker; hostels) are a small, but vital part of the wider work of the probation service in which high risk offenders are provided semi-secure accommodation either on release from prison (as part of release license conditions) or on bail. Currently 100 hostels cater for a wide range of offenders including both male and female offenders, sexual, drug and violent offenders (HMI Probation et al. 2008). This paper explores what people either working or residing in a probation hostel understand the purpose of work in hostels to be

CPD curriculum guide for social workers who are working with people on the autism spectrum

Tizard Centre, Centre for Child Protection (2015) “A report on autism for social workers” Commissioned by The College of Social Work (written and published by the Dept. of Health

The Origin of early Li-6 and the Reionization of the Universe

Observational data on the early galactic abundances of the light elements lithium, beryllium and boron are combined with data related to the reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in a search of processes happening in the early universe. Early massive metal-free stars (Pop III), largely held responsible for the reionization of the IGM, are proposed to have been also at the origin of the lithium-6 plateau, through their winds. In this sense the evolution of the Li-6/Be-9 ratio appears to be a key parameter for the history of nucleosynthesis, as a monitor of the early formation of metals and their subsequent injection in high energy particles.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, to appear in "Element Stratification in Stars, 40 years of Atomic Diffusion", Eds. G, Alecian, O. Richard and S. Vauclai

Considering reachability when comparing data refinements

Adding considerations about reachability to the Logics of Specification Languages [1] chapter [2]