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10 Sep 2012
equality | fines | proportionality | Punishment | wealth | Punishment | Law
Most countries impose fines rather than jail sentences for low-level criminal offences. (Often, much larger fines are used alongside jail sentences for ‘...
1 Jun 2012
Bias | court | crime | Crime & Policing | Judge | Juries | law | Punishment | sentencing | Law General | Punishment | Law | Society
Under the status quo in most English-speaking jurisdictions, a defendant’s previous convictions cannot be brought up in court until after the jury has...
25 May 2012
aid | crime | Crime & Policing | Criminals | Deviance | Deviant | Education | Frustration | ghetto | Government | poverty | Punishment | Riots | social deprivation | Society | Support | TAX | Uprising | Victim | wealth | Law | Society
Since the advent of modern social science, sociologists and criminologists have been preoccupied with finding the answer to what is the root cause of criminal...
20 Feb 2012
age | Children | Consent | crime | Gender | Heterosexual | homosexual | law | Liberal | Lower | Minor | Protect | protection | Punishment | rape | Rights | sex | Statutory | Underage | Youth | Society
The age of consent refers to the age at which a person’s assent to have sex is recognised as valid in the eyes of the law. Men (and sometimes women, depending...
20 Feb 2012
crime | Criminal Justice | Discretion | Judges | law | Prison | Punishment | Punishment | Law
Mandatory sentences are prison terms that are set by the legislature and remove discretion from the judiciary. The usual practice is for legislatures to set...
17 Feb 2012
crime | deterrance | Punishment | retribution | Sex offenders | Violence | Law General | Punishment | Law
Many people consider sexual abuse one of the worst crimes a person can commit. In these circumstances, it has been proposed by some that such an offender...
26 Jan 2012
discipline | Education | Learning | Punishment | School | Human rights | Teaching | Punishment | Education
Corporal punishment is a physical punishment in which pain is deliberately inflicted on a perpetrator of a wrong in order to exact retribution and to deter...
26 Jan 2012
The issue of sex offenders is always a sensitive one, and the popular pressure this places on the Government often leads to the adoption of measures intended...
26 Jan 2012
crime | Crime & Policing | Judge | Judicial discretion | law | mandatory sentencing | Prison | Punishment | rehabilitation | Sentencing guidelines | Trial | Punishment | Law
Crafted in response to rising crime rates and high rates of recidivism, mandatory sentencing laws targeting repeat offenders began to appear during the early...
