In Lolita, Humbert is obsessed with the 12-year-old Lolita. It is a vulgar and disturbing story which raises questions about morality and ethics. With a sophisticated and elegant narrative, Humbert manages to draw attention to language rather than to his actions. Through fancy prose style Humbert covers up and hides his horrible actions. His verbal game serves to manipulate his readers to accept Humbert´s feelings and actions and sympathize with him.  Humbert´s narration is very persuasive and the reader is easily fooled to concentrate on what he says rather than what he does. In this essay deconstructive method is used to analyse Lolita. The study shows how binary oppositions are used in Lolita and what effect they have on the reader´s comprehension of the text. The study presents a number of incongruities in Humbert´s telling of the story and therefore the essay argues that Humbert cannot be trusted with the telling of his tale.

Criminal procedure, the public and media - abstract The public principle is a fundamental element of the right to a fair trial. This public character protects litigants against the secret administration of justice with no public scrutiny. Public hearing also fulfils the educational and preventive function. Therefore there must be sufficient legal reasons to justify an exclusion of the public. The right of the public to receive information and the media's right to disseminate information are tied with the public control of the judiciary. Courts do not operate in a vacuum and criminal cases may be a subject to public debates. However, none of this is happening without any regulation. The freedom of expression has also its limits. As the personality rights and the presumption of innocence stand at the same level as this freedom. Media play two important roles in criminal proceedings. First role consists of dissemination of information (within the public interest) about ongoing criminal proceedings. This important task has several results. One is development of general prevention, when state tries to influence the society as whole, another is assistance with finding a missing person. Second role of media is interfaced with supervision. Information provided by media facilitate to control criminal proceedings....

Condemned prisoners in Texas and most other states are given an opportunity to make a final statement in the last moments before death. An anecdotal review by the author of this study over the last 15 years indicates that condemned prisoners use the opportunity for a variety of purposes. They ask forgiveness, explain themselves, lash out at accusers, rail at the system, read poems, say goodbyes to friends and family, praise God, curse fate - and assert their innocence with their last breaths. The final words also are typically heard by a select group of witnesses, which may include a prisoner's family and friends, victim's relatives, and one or more journalists. What the public knows about a particular condemned person's statement largely depends on what the journalists who witness the executions chose to include in their accounts of executions, the accuracy of their notes, and the completeness of the statements that are recorded on departments of correction websites or records. This paper will examine, through rhetorical and content analyses, the final words of the 355 prisoners who were executed in Texas between 1976 and 2005, identify those who made unequivocal claims of innocence in their final statements, and analyze news coverage of their executions by the Associated Press.

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2018-04-05T18:54:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Lascane Neto.pdf: 1163728 bytes, checksum: a278d7e1606bb03ec2721ecc0e66e730 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-05T18:54:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Lascane Neto.pdf: 1163728 bytes, checksum: a278d7e1606bb03ec2721ecc0e66e730 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-26 / The dissertation aims at the examination of the decisions given by the Supremo Tribunal Federal that allowed the beginning of the prison penalty involving deprivation of liberty just after the decision of second instance instead of after the final judgment of the criminal case, according to the fifth article, item LVII, of the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 -, moderating, in this form, the extension of the constitutional presumption of innocence, to the extent that as the provision textually in the norm consecrating the presumption of innocence doesn’t admit this abbreviation of the cessation of the state of innocent and consequently the arrest of person who does not have against him a finally decision. / A dissertação visa ao exame das decisões prolatadas pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal que permitiram o cumprimento da pena segregativa da liberdade a partir da decisão de 2ª instância, e não mais a partir da sentença penal transitada em julgado, conforme dispõe o artigo 5º, inciso LVII, da Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988 - CR/88 -, mitigando, dessa forma, a extensão do princípio constitucional da presunção de inocência e promovendo uma mutação inconstitucional na medida em que o disposto textualmente na norma consagradora da presunção de inocência não admite esse abreviamento da cessação do estado de inocente e, consequentemente, o encarceramento de pessoa que não tem contra si uma decisão condenatória transitada em julgado.

L’article 6§2 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme affirme que « toute personne est présumée innocente des faits qui lui sont reprochés jusqu’à ce que sa culpabilité ait été légalement établie ». Consacré sur le plan international et sur le plan national, le principe de présomption d’innocence est une constante dans les droits des pays du Conseil de l’Europe et il est le principe directeur de la procédure pénale. Néanmoins l’enjeu du procès pénal repose sur la recherche d'un équilibre entre les intérêts de la société et le primat de l'individu. À ce titre, l’opposition éternelle entre les intérêts de la société et celle du citoyen ainsi que la confrontation du principe avec d’autres principes fondamentaux (droit à l’information pour les journalistes) tendent à amoindrir la valeur de la présomption d’innocence. Malheureusement, l’affaiblissement de l’effectivité du principe s’observe sur l’ensemble des États membres, ce qui est d’autant plus inquiétant. C’est pourquoi, à travers cette thèse, j’ai voulu démontrer que le rôle du Conseil de l’Europe va au-delà de la simple exigence du respect des minimas imposés, il a un impact réel sur le droit positif de chaque État membre et il doit jouer un rôle plus affirmé pour renforcer les principes fondamentaux qu’il proclame. L’harmonisation des droits internes par le Conseil de l’Europe est une solution à envisager afin de renforcer l’effectivité du principe de présomption d’innocence. Bien que les prérogatives du Conseil de l’Europe soient limitées et que la rivalité avec l’Union européenne ne facilite pas l’objectif, il demeure le moteur principal en matière de promotion des droits de l’homme et l’impact de la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne en est une illustration. / Article 6§2 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that "everyone is presumed innocent of the facts alleged against him until his guilt has been legally established". Dedicated internationally and nationally, the principle of the presumption of innocence is a constant in the countries rights of Council of Europe and is the guiding principle of criminal procedure. Nevertheless, the issue of the criminal trial lies in the search for a balance between the interests of society and the primacy of the individual. As such, the eternal opposition between the interests of the society and the citizen as well as the confrontation of the principle with other fundamental principles (right to information for journalists) tend to undermine the value of the presumption of innocence. Unfortunately, the weakening affecting the effectiveness of the principle is observed in all Member States, which is all the more worrying. That is why, through this thesis, I wanted to show that the role of the Council of Europe goes beyond the simple requirement of respecting minimum imposed standards, it has a real impact on the positive law of each state member and he must play a more assertive role to reinforce the fundamental principles it proclaims. The harmonization of internal laws by the Council of Europe is a solution to be considered in order to reinforce the effectiveness of the principle of the presumption of innocence. Although the prerogatives of the Council of Europe are limited and the rivalry with the European Union does not facilitate the objective, it remains the main engine for the promotion of human rights and the impact of the European Court case-law is an illustration of this.

[pt] O presente trabalho tem por objeto o estudo a cerca da vedação da liberdade provisória em absoluto pelo legislador ordinário. Busca-se analisar a tensão entre o direito à liberdade provisória e a viabilidade da imposição do cerceamento da liberdade de locomoção em momento anterior à sentença penal condenatória irrecorrível, isto é, o propósito da pesquisa concentra-se na discussão em torno da validade da vedação da liberdade provisória em absoluto pelo legislador ordinário em face do direito à liberdade provisória assegurado no art. 5º, inciso LXVI, da Carta Política/88. A pesquisa apresentará como interlocutor a Teoria do Garantismo Penal elaborada pelo professor italiano Luigi Ferrajoli que permeará o desenvolvimento de todo o trabalho. Para a compreensão do tema proposto, necessário se faz abordar, inicialmente, o instituto jurídico da prisão processual, buscando a legitimidade da restrição da liberdade de locomoção do acusado anteriormente à sentença penal condenatória definitiva em face do postulado constitucional da presunção de inocência, bem como, analisar as singularidades das diversas modalidades de prisão processual previstas no ordenamento jurídico. Em seguida, discorre-se sobre a liberdade provisória, partindo do Código de Processo Penal de 1941 – ainda em vigor –, passando, logo após, para as considerações sobre as alterações realizadas pela Lei 6.416/77, até se chegar à nova ordem constitucional instalada pela Carta Política/88. Por fim, examina-se a relação entre a vedação da liberdade provisória em absoluto pelo legislador ordinário e o discurso de emergência no processo penal. Será abordada também a vedação da liberdade provisória em absoluto na legislação infraconstitucional, especificamente nas Leis n.º 8.072/90 – Lei dos Crimes Hediondos –, n.º 10.826/03 – Estatuto do Desarmamento – e, n.º 11.343/06 – Lei anti-Drogas. / [en] The present work has for object the about the prohibition of free on parole in absolute for the ordinary legislator. One searchs to analyze the tension enters the right to the free on parole and the viability of the imposition of the method of clipping of the freedom of locomotion at previous moment to the unappealable condemnatory criminal sentence, that is, the intention of the research is concentrated in the quarrel around the validity of the prohibition of absolute the free on parole in for the ordinary legislator in face of the right the assured free on parole in art. 5º, item LXVI, Charter Politics/88. The research will present as interlocutor the Theory of the Criminal Garantismo elaborated by Italian professor Luigi Ferrajoli who will all permeate the development of all the work. For the understanding of the considered subject, necessary if it makes to approach, initially, the legal institute of the procedural arrest, searching the legitimacy of the restriction of the freedom of locomotion of the defendant previously to the definitive condemnatory criminal sentence in face of the constitutional postulate of the innocence swaggerer, as well as, to analyze the singularities of the diverse foreseen modalities of procedural arrest in the legal system. After that, it is discoursed on the free on parole, leaving of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1941 – still in vigor –, passing, then after, for the consideration on the alterations carried through for Law 6.416/77, until if arriving at the new constitutional order installed by the Charter Politics/88. Finally, it is examined relation enters the prohibition of absolute the free on parole in for the ordinary legislator and the discourse of emergency in criminal proceeding. The prohibition of the free on parole in absolute will be boarded also infra-constitutional legislation, specifically in the Laws n.º 8.072/90 – Law of the Hideous Crimes –, n.º 10.826/03 – The Disarmament Statute – and n.º 11.343/06 – Anti-Drug Law.

The legal concept of formal burden of proof of public prosecutor has been discussed for more than 17 years of legislative work on the new Criminal Procedure Code and an increased attention was also paid to it before by the legal science, at the same time with the enforcement of adversary elements of court proceedings. The legal concept in question was established and developed as part of the Anglo-Saxon type of criminal proceedings where trial is based on a dispute between the parties. This involves the exclusive procedural responsibility of public prosecutor to clarify the facts relevant to the indictment filed. Although it is possible to give a brief description of the legal concept in question in a single sentence, its enactment would affect the overall nature of the proceedings before the court and would also be reflected in other stages of the criminal proceedings. The aim of the dissertation was to analyse the prerequisites and consequences of the enactment of the formal burden of proof of public prosecutor in the Czech criminal proceedings. Given the origin of the legal concept, the crucial question was whether its adoption would necessarily constitute a total departure from the legal principles which the existing Criminal Procedure Code is based on or whether it is possible and appropriate...

Ideals, aesthetics, forms, and concepts have resurfaced in various cultures throughout time. I am interested in the idea of the recurring themes that exist in the collective unconscious. I create monolithic figures that exhibit these archetypal qualities. Heavily influenced by film, animation, video games, and contemporary art, I create figures and paintings that are manifestations of my subconscious. These manifestations personify utopian ideals, the immortalization of youth, and the innocence of childhood.

This thesis seeks to explore how humanitarian communication produces subjectivities for individuals. More specifically, it investigates how the innocent modern/colonial humanitarian subject is produced through appeals to emotions. To explore this phenomenon, this thesis develops a decolonial research approach grounded in epistemic disobedience. As such, it first disrupts the binary between rationality and emotions by focusing on the roles of compassion, anger and guilt in the making of the innocent humanitarian subject. Second, it presents autoethnography and storytelling as entry doors into disobeying the binary between subject and object of research. The analysis of the autoethnography is presented in different modes of analysis, between creative and more traditional social science writings. The analysis shows that guilt and knowledge permit to partially defeat the stance of innocence produced by humanitarian communication. Additionally, by recentring racism and European colonialism/imperialism as central to the study of humanitarianism, this thesis demonstrates the importance of adopting decolonial research strategies to defeat persisting structures of inequality.

The aim of this study is to analyse how the concept of ‘women and children’ is represented bytwo humanitarian organisations; International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) andMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The analyses concludes that there is (still) an assumptionthat women have an inherent vulnerability and women are often described together with‘children’ as if they are one vulnerable group instead of two. This study suggests aproblematization of the concept since activities planned by humanitarian organisations mayhave a big impact on people’s lives when assuming one group to be more vulnerable thananother.