Call for papers: Young people against cruel punishment

CALL FOR PAPERS / SENDING COMMUNICATIONS

List of selected communications

The organization of I International Congress on the death penalty in the world, life sentences and long-term sentences invite young researchers and professionals to attend and participate in the event by sending communications[1].

For this, people interested in attending must register for the Congress through the following link https://forms.gle/rZKKfAFcCU739yJ96

The communicators, in addition to registering for the Congress, must send the text of their communication to the email address congreso.penascrueles@uca.es.

The maximum length will be 10,000 characters with spaces (not including the final bibliographic collection). The topic must correspond to one of the following axes:

• Death penalty and cruel penalties in international law
• Cruelty and the theory of emotions
• Extrajudicial executions and use of police force
• Alternatives to the death penalty. Long-term penalties
• Long-term sentences and judicial errors
• Death Penalty and Cruel Punishments: A Gender Perspective
• Conventionality and constitutionality
• Minority and the death penalty

The communication proposals will be selected by the Scientific Committee through an irrevocable decision in accordance with quality standards.

• The authorship of the accepted communications will be certified.
• Among all of them, those of greatest scientific interest will be selected so that they can be defended on the days when the Congress is held. The defense can be done in person or online.
• A selection will be made from among all the accepted communications and they will be published (with the prior consent of the author) in the collective book resulting from the Congress, together with the texts of the presentations.
• The organization will award a prize and two runners-up.

For communications to be published, the following formal criteria must be met:

The texts may be in Spanish, French, Portuguese, English and Italian.

At least 10,000 characters with spaces, not counting the final bibliographic collection. The maximum length will be indicated to the authors of the selected communications.

Times New Roman 12 (footnotes 10). Simple spacing. Margins by default.

Title of the communication in capital letters, bold, underlined and centered.

Name and affiliation of the caller under the title. Sentence-like style, without bold and without underlining.

Numbered headings:

1. FIRST LEVEL
   • Second level
     • Third level
       • Fourth level

Bibliography:

Monographs:

SURNAME, N., Qualification, edition, publisher, city, year.

Chapters of the book:

SURNAME, N., "Title", in SURNAME, N. (coord./ dir./ ed.), Qualification, edition, publisher, city, year, pp.

Magazine article:

SURNAME, N., "Title", Magazine name, vol, no, year, pp.

References obtained online must include the access date in brackets.

Important dates:

Submission date: until December 15, 2021 (11:59 p.m., GMT+1 peninsular Spain time)

Date of acceptance of the communication: January 10, 2022 (11:59 p.m., GMT+1 peninsular Spain time)

Date of dispatch of the final text for publication: February 28, 2022 (23:59 hours, GMT + 1 hour in mainland Spain).

[1] Under 40 years old.