A presente dissertação tem por objetivo a obtenção do grau de mestre no Mestrado de Direito e Ciência Jurídica da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Versa sobre a Teoria do Domínio do Fato que teve origem na doutrina e jurisprudência alemã. Pretendemos trazer as con…
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O presente trabalho procura analisar um tema cuja visibilidade permanece algo reduzida. Esta ‘nova’ forma de abuso apropria-se das vulnerabilidades tradicionais e locais, mas também das ferramentas que, enquanto sociedade, agora nos encontramos altamente dependentes. Nomeadament…
O presente trabalho versa sobre a iminente necessidade de integrar o crime de violência doméstica no diminuto leque de causas de indignidade sucessória vigorantes no ordenamento jurídico português. Partindo de uma análise histórico-material e jurídico-social entre o reduzido con…
Esta dissertação surge no âmbito de várias discussões tidas durante a parte letiva do Mestrado em Direito e Prática Jurídica onde as políticas públicas e perspetivas da Administração Pública foram amplamente analisadas. Assim, partindo desse pressuposto, pretendeu-se analisar o …
This dissertation examines smugglers as they appeared in English print culture from their first appearance as "smuckellors" in a 1661 Royal Proclamation to 1766 when Parliament repealed the Revenue Act of 1764 amid protests over the government's crackdown on the vital molasses s…
O presente trabalho de dissertação de Mestrado tem por objetivo demonstrar a existência de trabalho forçado na atualidade, em especial a situação enfrentada por trabalhadores de fazendas localizadas nas regiões sul e sudeste do Estado do Pará, Brasil. Para tanto, é imprescindíve…
Com vista a uma correta perceção do tema em apreço, no presente estudo pretendeu-se analisar a temática do concurso de infrações no regime das contraordenações rodoviárias na Guiné-Bissau, examinando e esclarecendo os diversos conceitos inerentes ao tema, bem como os instrumento…
Videogames are a multibillion-dollar industry. Their high definition graphics and sophisticated gameplay cater to a continuously growing crowd of enthusiastic players. But what is their standing in the academic community? Can games be studied as texts or are they limited by the …
Ethno-nationalist politicians and criminals in Mostar espoused a discourse of ethno-exclusionist sociocultural relations as a superstructure for the public in order to establish ethnocratic kleptocracies where they concealed their criminal colonization of residential and commerc…
Todas las muertes de Lázaro es una novela negra que habla de corrupción, ansias de poder, ambición y decepción. En este libro, el tema de la muerte es una excusa para hablar de todo un país, El Salvador, y sus contradicciones a través del cinismo, el humor y el escepticismo. Su …
This paper examines modern maritime piracy, with a focus on Somalia piracy, to determine the frequency of attacks, longitudinal trends of piracy attacks, and predict future levels of attacks utilizing historical data from 1992 to 2010 provided by the International Maritime Burea…
Nigeria has continued to witness an upsurge in white-collar crime since its independence. In spite of the many problems associated with white-collar crime, many of the citizens appeared not to recognize its dangerous negative effects. Previous research indicated that there was l…
This dissertation examines the relation between fear and state power through a study of formal and informal security institutions in Bandung, West Java. Using a combination of historical and ethnographic data, it argues that the central problem for the evolution of the urban sec…
Problem. The problem of this study was to identify the risk groups and explore the sociodemographic risk factors for violent crime victimization among adolescents and young adults surveyed in the 1992-1994 National Crime Victimization Survey. The context of the analysis was scho…
ABSTRACT Political scientists believe that the Abu Sayyaf Group's (ASG) penchant for accumulating funds through hostage ransoming and other criminal activity has caused the organization to drift away from its Islamic foundations to become bandits. This research explores this cla…
The purpose of the thesis is to offer an examination of the economics of crime and corruption. By stressing the importance of Becker's seminal paper, we show how criminal behaviour is no longer considered the result of mental illness, but a decision largely based on a cost-benef…
In 2011 five days of rioting spread across many English towns and cities. David Cameron, then UK Prime Minister, described these events as ‘criminality, pure and simple’, inhibiting serious examination of what happened and justifying harsh punitive sentences for rioters. This th…
This thesis details the development and evaluation of a new photofitting approach. The motivation for this work is that current photofit systems used by the police - whether manual or computerized - do not appear to work very well. Part of the problem with these approaches is th…