Violencia criminal y desplazamiento en México

La descontrolada violencia criminal empuja de distintas formas a la gente a trasladarse a otros lugares, desde la coacción directa y las amenazas físicas a la erosión de la calidad de vida y las oportunidades laborales. No todas las personas que se desplazan forzadamente tienen el mismo acceso a la protección o el asilo.

El perfil geográfico criminal: aproximación teórica y aplicación práctica

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo generar conocimiento sobre el perfil geográfico como técnica de investigación criminal que analiza la ubicación de los delitos para intentar establecer la zona de anclaje de un criminal, siendo especialmente importante la vinculación de casos a un mismo delincuente y evaluar el estado actual de la técnica dentro de la investigación criminal. La metodología empleada se basó en el análisis de revisión bibliográfica pertinente. La información recabada mediante la técnica hizo visible grandes aportaciones, se observó una proliferación de estudios sobre el comportamiento geográfico criminal y se concluyó que el reciente estudio de la materia despierta un gran interés debido, principalmente, a la creación de los Sistemas de Información Geográfica, fundamentales en el desarrollo de la técnica y en la realización de mapas criminógenos. Además concluiremos con una valoración sobre la importancia de la metodología en la realización de un buen perfil geográfico y analizaremos el estado actual en el que se encuentra la técnica dentro de la investigación criminal.

Le cadre européen de protection des données personnelles en matière pénale. Dimensions interne et externe = The European framework for the protection of personal data in criminal matters. Internal and external dimensions. Bruges Political Research Paper No. 29, May 2013

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The Europeanisation of Criminal Law and the Criminal Law Dimension of European Integration. Research Papers in Law, 3/2005

From the Introduction. In the academic year 1991-1992, Utrecht University, on my initiative, started to offer courses in European criminal law. This initiative came at a symbolic moment, just prior to the entry into force of the EU Treaty of Maastricht1 and the outlining of European policy in the areas of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA). The Director of the Legal Department, Paul DEMARET, was aware of the significance of this development and I have been given the opportunity to teach this subject at the College of Europe since 1995. Since then, JHA has evolved into one of the main areas of EU legislation. Now we are again on the threshold of an important historical feat. In June 2003, the European Convention reached agreement concerning a draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.2 The use of the term “Constitution” for the future EU Treaty is not simply cosmetic. The realisation has dawned that EU integration must be embedded in a treaty document which also regulates the rights and duties of citizens, not just with respect to European citizenship, but also with respect to, for example, Justice. Where JHA is concerned, this result acknowledges that the harmonisation of criminal law and criminal procedure and transnational cooperation cannot preclude the harmonisation of principles of due law and fair trial. Despite the substantial Europeanisation of criminal law, many criminal lawyers are defending the achievements and typicalities of their national criminal law like never before. EU initiatives are assessed from the perspective of the national agenda and national achievements. We are still too far removed from a European criminal law policy that is both European and enjoys national support. The core issue is therefore not how to keep our criminal (procedural) law national and free from European influences, but rather how to ensure democratic decision making, the quality of the constitutional state and the guarantees of criminal law in a national administrative model which has to operate increasingly interactively within a European and international context. In this contribution, the contours of the Europeanisation of criminal law are outlined and analysed. First, attention will be paid to the EC and, second, to the JHA. Following this, an evaluation and a look ahead at the current IGC are indicated.

European Criminal Law and General Principles of Union Law. Research Papers in Law, 5/2005

From the Introduction. The European Court of Justice, partly followed in this by the European legislator, has regulated Community law and policy through a set of general principles of law. For the Community legal order in the first pillar, general legal principles have developed from functional policy areas such as the internal market, the customs union, the monetary union, the common agricultural policy, the European competition policy, etc., which are of great importance for the quality and legitimacy of Community law. The principles in question are not so much general legal principles of an institutional character, such as the priority of Community law, direct effect or Community loyalty, but rather principles of law which shape the fundamental rights and basic rights of the citizen. I refer to the principle of legality, of nulla poena, the inviolability of the home, the nemo tenetur principle, due process, the rights of the defence, etc. Many of these legal principles have been elevated to primary Community law status by the European Court of Justice, often as a result of preliminary questions. Nevertheless, a considerable number of them have also been elaborated in the context of contentious proceedings before the Court of Justice, such as in the framework of European competition law and European public servants law.