Vol. 12 No. 3 (2026)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22197/rbdpp.v12i3

Published: 2026-11-05

DOSSIER: Judicial Reasoning and Standards of Justification in Criminal Procedure

Editorial of dossier “Judicial Reasoning and Standards of Justification in Criminal Proceedings”

Flavia Carbonell Bellolio, Ramón Beltrán Calfurrapa
The obligation to use official forms for statements of reasons and judicial sentencing justification: insights from Polish criminal procedure

Katarzyna Syroka-Marczewska
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Judicial Reasoning: A Three-Dimensional Standard for Evidence in Criminal Proceedings

Wendy Requejo-Passoni
Judicial Reasoning as a Guarantee of Fair Criminal Trial in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Andrzej Sakowicz , Dr Sebastian Zieliński
Evidential reasoning between free proof and legal proof: a model for regulating fact-finding through standards, second-order rules, criteria, and guidelines

Gisela Aguiar Wanderley
Judicial Reasoning and Individualised Risk in Pre-Trial Detention: A Transnational Standard of Justification

Csaba Szabó
The conditional conventionality of the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of proof in the criminal jurisprudence of the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice

Heloísa Teixeira Araújo da Silva, Walter Nunes da Silva Júnior
The legal nature of the jurisdictional act of admissibility of the indictment and the enforceability of its justification: a (re)analysis of the case law of the Brazilian higher courts

Antonio Eduardo Ramires Santoro, João Gabriel Menezes Costa Melo

Fundamentals of Criminal Procedure

The Influence of STF Theme 506 on Police Classification of Drug-Trafficking Incidents: An Empirical Analysis in Itabira, Minas Gerais

Vanderlei Lino da Silva

Criminal prosecution: investigation, public oral trial and appeal

Effectiveness and Obstacles in the Prosecution of Human Trafficking in Chile

Carlos Correa, Mayra Feddersen, Diego Rochow, Sofía Wilson

Criminal evidence theory

Reconsidering the Protection of Child Witnesses and Pre-Recorded Testimony: Comparative Perspectives from Spain and England and Wales

Beatriz Martínez Perpiñá
Chain of Custody, Digital Evidence, and Hash Values: An Analysis of STJ Precedents considering the Accusatory Criminal Procedure

Daniele Maia
Protection without compromising the evidence: implementation of special testimony and factors associated with conviction in child sexual abuse cases (Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2023)

Michele Franke, Lucas Spanemberg
Evidentiary governance and arrest in flagrante for drunk driving: empirical evidence from Operation Lei Seca in the State of Rio de Janeiro

Carlos Augusto Goulart do Amaral, Marcio Iantorno de Jesus Bachur

Criminal Execution

Reporting a crime in prison: between duty and arbitrarinessa study from the perspective of prison staff in Chile

Jörg Alfred Stippel, Paula Medina González, Valentina Frómeta Gutiérrez
Right or indiscipline? The classification of hunger strikes in Brazilian prison disciplinary regulations

Mariana Pinto Zoccal

International Criminal Procedure and International Legal Cooperation

Joint Investigation Teams, extraterritorial activity and sovereignty:conceptual evolution and comparative models

Paulo Roberto Galvão de Carvalho