Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos

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• Desafio(s) 6- Jovenes y adultos- El dificil vinculo social

  27 April 2009
  The difficult «social bond» to which this edition is dedicated, takes particular connotations in the context of the freedom and security framework, another two categories of post-modern culture nowadays seriously threatened. However, taking into account the possibility of risking that the relationship between children and young, with the adults could be considered as one of the «emergency situation» to which will correspond exceptional reactions, we must emphasize how necessary it is to keep in mind the structural conditions within which the social bound manifests...

• Desafio(s) 5- Poder académico y educación legal

  27 April 2009
  when referring to the «academic power» we are also trying to highlight a particular kind of power. It is a power that is not circumscribed by the institution in which it is exercised (the university), although if she is the origin, determines it and legitimates it.

• Workshop : The detention of non-citizens in Europe and its consequences for the Rule of Law, Barcelona, 24th October 2008

  21 October 2008
  The migratory phenomenon gives us an important example of the challenges that European policies have to face related to the respect of Human Rights and the basic guarantees of the Rule of Law. The status of migrants defined by several European migration laws bring together a number of elements which increases migrant people’s vulnerability and perpetuate their image as «the other».

• Report of International Conference Exceptionalism and Human Rights

  27 February 2007
  The main objective of the Conference was to analyze, inform and discuss with the scientific community, students and society, some specific subjects related with the current problems caused by the relationship between liberty and security, specially the links between exceptionalism and globalization, migration, antiterrorism, deprivation of liberty, torture, etc…

• Desafío(s) 3-4 : EMERGENCIAS URBANAS

  27 de febrero de 2007
  …Europe and Occidental states in general, are facing situations that recognizes their origins in the different aspects produced by the globalization process. The urban emergencies analyzed in this publication thanks to the opinions, contributions and information given by all the collaborators, constitute the most evident and recent signs of situations of emergency and exceptional reactions and interventions…

• Desafío(s) 2 : TORTURAS Y ABUSO DE PODER

  21 de febrero de 2007
  Torture and abuse of power can not be considered nowadays inappropriate or meaningless references. Torture has always constituted an abuse of power of any kind: physical, economical, authoritarian, political. Even if these subjects have been of great importance for the construction of the juridical and political culture in Occident since the beginning of Modernity, it is also essential to continue talking about them today. Nowadays we talk about all these behaviors worldwide, and this is why we have considered important to face this subject on this publication, specially when we know torture still exists in every corner of this world through the most horrible abuses of power.

• Desafío(s) 1 : POLÍTICA CRIMINAL DE LA GUERRA

  14 de febrero de 2007
  This first volume of Desafío ( s ) looks to begin an investigation field to analyze the (perverse) relationships established between power and the citizens’ rights. This volume presents different contributions that were submitted at the Seminar on Criminal Policies of War organized on March 2005 by the Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans (OSPDH) of the University of Barcelona (UB).

• Jornades internacionals : Excepcionalisme i Drets Humans

  4 de diciembre de 2006
  En el marc del projecte Europeu The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security (CHALLENGE) es celebraran les Jornades Internacionals Excepcionalisme i Drets Humans. Aquest projecte, que compta amb la participació de 21 universitats i centres de recerca de tota Europa, pretén fomentar una major sensibilitat i responsabilitat en la presa de decisions relacionades amb les noves polítiques de seguretat, amb l’objectiu de minimitzar el grau que aquestes poden debilitar les llibertats, els drets humans i la cohesió social en una Europa en procés d’ampliació.

• PUNITIVE POPULISM. Reforms and counter-reforms undertaken in Spain on criminal, procedural-criminal law, penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the latest decade (1995-2005)

  13 June 2006
  Punitive populism is a governance strategy everyday more common in western countries. This strategy although not original seems to be unavoidable for political classes who are convinced that social conflicts ( and consequently, also the political ones) would be regulated by a harder application of Penal System. Reforms and counter-reforms which have being carried out in Spain on criminal and procedural-criminal law, as also on penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the last decade (1995-2005) represent a paradigmatic era of this governance strategy.

• EL POPULISMO PUNITIVO : Análisis de las reformas y contra-reformas del Sistema Penal en España (1995-2005)

  13 de junio de 2006
  Las estrategias punitivas de corte populista son cada vez más habituales en los estados occidentales. Aunque no se trata de estrategiaS completamente novedosas, han pasado a ser un recurso inevitable para la clase política, que parece estar convencida de que los conflictos sociales (y en consecuencia, también los políticos) pueden ser resueltos mediante aplicación del Sistema Penal. Las reformas y contra-reformas penales llevadas a cabo en España durante la última década (1995-2005) representan el paradigma de este tipo de estrategias de gobierno.