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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...
17 Feb 2012
crime | criminal | justice | statutes of limitations | Law General | Law
A statute of limitations is a law that prevents the prosecution of a crime once a specified amount of time has passed. For instance, if a rape was...
17 Feb 2012
crime | Crime & Policing | guns | law enforcement | Policing | Law General | Law
Most police officers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, and New Zealand (as well as in some other, smaller countries) are routinely unarmed, whereas in...
26 Jan 2012
crime | Crime & Policing | justice | law | prosecution | Law General | Law
Double jeopardy is a long-standing legal principle existing in many countries which dictates that a defendant cannot be tried twice for the same crime. ...
26 Jan 2012
crime | habeas corpus | Jury | justice | law | Rights | Trial | Law General | Political philosophy | Law | Philosophy
Trial by jury is a legal process through which a group of lay individuals make a decision about the outcome of a trial, which is then applied by a judge....
26 Jan 2012
crime | Crime & Policing | DNA database | forensics | presumption of innocence | Privacy | Rights | terrorism | Law General | Law
At present police can remove samples of DNA from individuals suspected of involvement in a specified crime, commonly by the removal of cells from the mouth...
26 Jan 2012
Capital punishment | crime | Crime & Policing | death penalty | miscarriage of justice | Prison | rehabilitation | Ethics | Life | Punishment | Law | Philosophy
Capital punishment is the sentence of death, or practice of execution, handed down as punishment for a criminal offence. It can only be used by a state, after...
26 Jan 2012
crime | Crime & Policing | family | law | life | Negotiations | organized crime | Piracy | ransom | Law General | Law
The crime of "kidnap" involves the capture and imprisonment of an individual with a subsequent demand for payment to secure their release. As such,...
26 Jan 2012
Corporal Punishment | crime | Prison | rehabilitation | Primary | Secondary | Punishment | Youth | Education | Law | Society
Corporal punishment is best defined as the use of physical pain, injury, discomfort or humiliation to penalise unruly or criminal behaviour. It has been widely...
