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Crimes against humanity is a term that came into prominence at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. It includes crimes such as slavery; genocide; mass deportations or displacement of a group of people; the cultural or physical extermination of a group of people due to their race, religion, or …
Informing aids investigation but imperils legitimacy. It demands accountability. Informants , a term used synonymously with informers, are those individuals who pass intelligence or incriminating evidence about third-party subjects to the police or other authorities , covertly and in expectation of anonymity and/or reward. Thus they are distinguished …
Criminal Justice Ethics, the only journal dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of the ethical issues that arise at various points in the criminal justice system—from legislative decisions to reentry challenges—has been a forum for theoreticians, policy makers, and practitioners for more than 30 years. The journal was first …
Offender profiling or psychological profiling/ criminal profiling/crime scene analysis is generally regarded as “an educated attempt to provide investigative agencies with specific information as to the type of individual who would have committed a certain crime.” While variations exist, it is fairly universally agreed that the general aim …
The concept of criminal responsibility refers to the quality or state of being morally, legally, or mentally accountable for the intentional commission of an act prohibited and punishable under criminal law. The principle of individual autonomy whereby the individual is endowed with free will and the independent capacity …
Convict criminology critically assesses the prevailing practices that exist in corrections and provides insight into the issues associated with incarceration and the issues that continue to manifest in post release challenges that impede successful reentry into communities. Convict criminology also seeks to promote policy reforms that will produce …
Critical criminology is a highly complex area of the criminological corpus. It encompasses a range of different approaches, all of which have different emphasizes and nuances that they have been categorized under various headings, including Marxist criminology, radical criminology, left-realism, feminist criminology, sociological criminology or the sociology of …
Extending at its peak from the Niger River in the east to the port of Lagos on the western coast, Benin was a dynastic kingdom in what is now southern Nigeria, in the West African forested region. Present-day Benin City (called Ibinu; it was founded in 1180) was …
The Berbers are the earliest known inhabitants of northwestern Africa’s Mediterranean coast, plains, and mountain ranges. Living as nomadic herders or farmers in Morocco’s Atlas and Rif mountain ranges, Algeria, the Sahara Desert, east into Libya and Egypt, the exact ethnic and cultural origins of the Berbers is …
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was born in 1090 in Fontaine (now a suburb of Dijon in Burgundy, France) of noble parents: Tescelin, a relative of the lord of Châtillon, and Aleth, daughter of the lord of Montbard. His five brothers trained for military careers, but Bernard had fragile …
The word bhakti is derived from a Sanskrit word for “sharing.” It was used to describe a new type of path to moksha (“liberation from the cycle of reincarnations”). Bhakti devotees (bhaktas) usually committed themselves to one of the Trimurti of Brahman (“the supreme spirit reality”). The three …
The Black Death (Black Plague, The Plague, Bubonic Plague) was so named because the skin on many of its victims turned black, a result of massive blood clots. Although there have been many plagues throughout history, the three most associated with the term Black Plague are pandemics (epidemics …
Blanche was born in Palencia, present-day Spain, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, the king of Castile, and Eleanor, daughter of English king Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. She married Louis VIII (1187–1226) of France, the son of Philip II (1165–1223) of France, on May 23, …
Boccaccio is the most recent of the three “great minds” of 14th-century Italian humanism, after Dante Alighieri and Petrarch. He was a poet, a scientist, and, most important, a creator of the early modern short story genre. Boccaccio’s ancestors were peasants, but his father became a wealthy merchant …
Bohemia was a kingdom in central Europe, a vassal from the 10th century and later an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. The earliest known historical inhabitants of the country were the Boii, a Celtic tribe, from whom Bohemia derives its name. By the first century Slavic tribes, …
Known as the Apostle of the Germans, Saint Boniface was educated in England under the influence of Benedictine monasteries in the late seventh century. He could have followed in the steps of the Venerable Bede, so polished was his Latin, but the monks instilled in him a zeal …
Borobudur, the largest Buddhist monument in the world, is located in central Java. Surrounded by fertile rice fields and coconut plantations, the Buddhist stupa is located on a small hill above Kedu Plain. It was built in 760 to resemble a mountain and was completed in 830. Borobudur …
Brahma is one of the three major gods of the Hindu religion, together with Shiva and Vishnu. Worship of Brahma began in the Vedic Age of Indian history and its importance was gradually outweighed by the worship of Shiva and Vishnu over time. Brahma the god should be …
Born the son of a lawyer in Florence in 1377, Filippo Brunelleschi rejected his father’s choice of a law career and trained as a goldsmith and sculptor. After six years of his apprenticeship he passed the exam and officially became a master in the goldsmith’s guild. During his …
Leonardo Bruni was one of the foremost humanists of the early 15th century in Italy. He dedicated himself to a career of studying and writing about classical Greek and Roman culture and drawing lessons from the era of the Roman republic that he felt could be applied to …
