Editorial

The 3rd edition of Volume II continues to keep up with the new

developments in the national criminal law field as well as in the international field.
The following three articles have been submitted for your enjoyment.
We deeply thank you for your support and we invite you to read and
comment upon the newest edition of our journal!
The first article takes on detainee conditons. The authors rethoricly asks: Is
the detainee an object or a person?. Without any hesitation we would promptly
reply that the detainee is a person. Thus, the author asserts: in front of me I see a
person with his own identity or the object of my work? I invest a certain amount of
trust in him, I push him to become responsible, to demonstrate that he deserves a new
chance. Undeniably, we cannot talk about social reinsertion if we relate to a
detainee as to an individual without personality, forgetting that he or she has dreams
and needs, achievements and failures on a background of an aducation and a series of
experiencies oriented towards the personal scope of life.
The second article draws attention to the importance of a clear and correct
interpretation of evidence in a criminal trial. For a fair awarding of a solution in
criminal cases, the evidence may not be enough (evidence that in some cases may
prove to be apparent evidence) and deemed necessary the opinion of specialists,
namely, expert appraisals. Thus, the second article is presented as a research report
focusing on the importance of a semantics expert appraisal.
The last, but not the least, article deals with two prison systems from two excommunist countries: Romania and Azerbaijan. When speaking of the penitentiary
systems of Romania and Azerbaijan it conjures up images of a multitude of
information for debate. Relying on the Criminal Codes, the laws regarding the
enforcement of sentences and the Internal Regulation Policies of penitentiaries of
both countries, we will identify weak points, strong points, as well as alternatives to
the identified confinement systems.

We hope that this edition too will satisfy your curiosity and drive you to
comment upon the articles in order to make your contribution to the developments in
the field of criminal justice.
Enjoy your reading!

PROBATION junior Team