<Emphasis Type="Italic">Karl Korinek</Emphasis> – der Verfassungsrichter

Der Beitrag schildert aus Anlass seines 70. Geburtstages die gro?en Verdienste, die sich Karl Korinek um die ?sterreichische Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit im Allgemeinen sowie als Pr?sident des VfGH im Besonderen erworben hat.     

Juvenile Justice in Pennsylvania: Mission‐Driven; Performance‐ Based; Outcome‐Focused

Since 1995, Pennsylvania's Balanced and Restorative Justice Mission has been the driving force behind Pennsylvania's reform and system improvement efforts. Pennsylvania has made strong and steady progress towards advancing this statutory mission and the related operational goals through policy, practice and programmatic enhancements over these past 20+ plus years. Three key events spurred forth this advancement: the legislative passage of Act 33 in 1995 that statutorily established the goals of Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ), the Models for Change Juvenile Justice Reform Initiative–Additional Reform Momentum (2004) and the Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Strategy–Evidence‐based Approach to the Reforms (2010).What follows is the story of how it all unfolded.     

The relationship between crime and “objective” versus “subjective” strains

Agnew's (2001, 2006) general strain theory makes a distinction between “objective” strains, which refer to events and conditions which are disliked by most people in a given group, and “subjective” strains, which refer to events and conditions which are disliked by the people who have experienced them. Agnew argues that there is only partial overlap between objective and subjective strains, since many people do not subjectively evaluate the objective strains they experience in a negative manner. Further, Agnew argues that subjective strains should be more strongly associated with crime, since they are more likely to generate the negative emotions that lead to crime. This article tests Agnew's arguments with data from a sample of Italian youth. The results provide some support for Agnew, suggesting that many people do not evaluate the objective strains they experience in a negative manner and that subjective strains are more strongly associated with crime than are objective strains. These findings have important implications for the research on general strain theory.     

BETWEEN PROPORTIONALITY & IMPUNITY: Confrontation⇒ Truth⇒ Prevention

The ideal of punishment proportionate to wrongdoing creates a criminal justice system that deters prevention. An alternative ideal is that crime should always be confronted with a presumption for mercy that is conditional upon participation in a truth-seeking process that identifies paths to prevention. Informally rewarding reconciliation and prevention is the basis of a more compelling rational choice account of crime control than proportionate formal punishment. A rational and emotionally intelligent criminal justice system might look something like the airline safety system.     

Vertretung einer "Vorpartei"

Hat eine politische Partei durch Hinterlegung ihrer Satzung beim BMI gem § 1 Abs 4 Parteiengesetz Rechtspers?nlichkeit erlangt, sind aber in diesem Zeitpunkt die organschaftlichen Vertreter entsprechend den in der Satzung vorgesehenen Organen noch nicht bestellt, so vertreten bis zur Bestellung der organschaftlichen Vertreter in analoger Anwendung von § 2 Abs 2 Satz 2 VerG 2002 die Gründer gemeinsam die politische Partei.     

"Solomon" and Consciousness

For more than forty years, now, the strange dwarf planet had been under Earth's control.