From punishment to education--juvenile delinquency in Romanian criminal law.

For centuries children were considered "mini-adults". Together with expressing the need to educate children and putting a stop to their integration in the work field from the earliest years the 19th century also displayed a new image of the child, which clearly separates him from the adults. In this paper the authors analyze the Romanian legislation addressing juvenile delinquency in criminal temporal evolution.

A possibility to identify the vehicle driver through complex forensic and criminalistic expertise--case report.

Traffic accidents can have more or less dramatic consequences that involve penal and civil responsibility with amplitude extending over long periods of time. In many cases, substitution of the driver with the passenger in order to avoid criminal responsibility is often remarked. The substitution takes place with the passenger's agreement or, in cases with dramatic consequences (coma or death), without his/her consent.

Science, biomedical technology and biolaw.

Starting from legislative recognition of the grounding principles of human rights, the authors describe and comment upon the Council of Europe's Convention on human rights and human dignity confronted with scientific discoveries and also upon the Oviedo Convention of 1997 for the protection of Human Rights and dignity of the human being with regard to the application of biology and medicine. The authors specify that, given the promise made by Romania to observe international obligations, the Romanian law no. 2/1998 on organ and tissue transplantation abrogates the stipulations of the law 3-1978 and also includes 9 appendices which, being part of the law, guarantee in addition the observance of its provisions.

[New trends in the scientific anthropo-cultural psychiatric expertise].

Starting from the "epistemological naturalization of sciences of life", the authors present the complex content of medico-legal psychiatric examination, from which will result its scientific structure. The ontological, epistemological, hermeneutical and axiological content of this type of examination emphasize its methodological structure in the purpose of combining in a creative way its humanistic and scientific features.