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Nulla poena sine lege (Latin for "no penalty without law", Anglicized pronunciation: / ˈ n ʌ l ə ˈ p iː n ə ˈ s aɪ n iː ˈ l iː dʒ iː / NUL-ə PEE-nə SY-nee LEE-jee) is a legal formula which, in its narrow interpretation, states that one can only be punished for doing something if a penalty for this behavior is fixed in criminal law.
The Code is established by an organic law, the Organic Law 10/1995, of 23 November, of the Criminal Code (Ley Orgánica 10/1995, de 23 de noviembre, del Código Penal). Section 149(6) of the Spanish Constitution establishes the sole jurisdiction of the Cortes Generales over criminal law in Spain. The Criminal Code is structured through two books.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
The Isla de Coiba has been the site of the Coiba Penal Colony, Panama's harshest prison, since 1919. Although most of its prisoners are sentenced by courts to specified terms, sometimes persons are sent to Coiba while awaiting the results of pretrial investigation or prior to sentencing , a potential violation of judicial regulations.
The penal laws were, according to Edmund Burke, "a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."
There is poor evidence to suggest that penal harm has a deterrent effect once an offender's imprisonment is over. [4] It forms a controversial appendage of a body of theory known as retribution; its perception as cruelty rather than justice may endanger both internal security and prospects for rehabilitation and goes against the humane ideal of most human rights advocates, possibly qualifying ...
The House Must Be Unmade (Spanish: Hay que deshacer la casa) [1] is a 1986 Spanish comedy film directed by José Luis García Sánchez from a screenplay co-written by Rafael Azcona based on the play by Sebastián Junyent. [2] [3] It stars Amparo Rivelles and Amparo Soler Leal.
La casa de al lado (The House Next Door) is an American Spanish-language black comedy telenovela produced by the United States–based television network Telemundo.This mystery is a remake of the Chilean telenovela La familia de al lado produced by TVN in 2010 to 2011 and is being adapted by the author of the original, José Ignacio Valenzuela making a story longer with many differences from ...