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Social Indicators Research, 2003
This article provides an overall picture of crime and crime control in Korea over the past 30 years. By using official crime data, we examined general trends and characteristics of crime, crime rates, and crime control practices in each stage of the criminal justice system in Korea during that period. The relative seriousness of crime problems in Korea
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This article provides an overall picture of crime and crime control in Korea over the past 30 years. By using official crime data, we examined general trends and characteristics of crime, crime rates, and crime control practices in each stage of the criminal justice system in Korea during that period. The relative seriousness of crime problems in Korea
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Confronting the ‘Crime of Crimes’
2013It is very likely that the month of May 2013 will forever be remembered as a landmark date of reckoning with the crime of genocide. On 10 May in Guatemala City the the three-judge First High-Risk Tribunal A sentenced the former president and chief of staff Efrain Rios Montt to 80 years imprisonment for his involvement in the targeted attacks on ...
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2013
As social beings, people are bound by their membership of groups. So it comes as no real surprise that they also commit crime in groups. However, there are many questions regarding group crime that we still cannot answer with any real certainty. For instance, does group membership mean that people who would not normally commit crimes become more likely
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As social beings, people are bound by their membership of groups. So it comes as no real surprise that they also commit crime in groups. However, there are many questions regarding group crime that we still cannot answer with any real certainty. For instance, does group membership mean that people who would not normally commit crimes become more likely
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2000
Are crime rates rising or falling around the world? Are specific types of crime more prevalent in some cultures than others? Do different cultures vary greatly in their attitudes toward crime prevention? Students will find answers to these and similar questions in this unique resource of 15 case studies exploring the problems of crime and crime control
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Are crime rates rising or falling around the world? Are specific types of crime more prevalent in some cultures than others? Do different cultures vary greatly in their attitudes toward crime prevention? Students will find answers to these and similar questions in this unique resource of 15 case studies exploring the problems of crime and crime control
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Crime & Delinquency, 1961
The American people have never adequately understood the extent to which crime causes a waste of time, money, and human life. The reason for this inadequate understanding is the news papers' failure to supply the people with basic information. Sensationalism, uncritical use of "handout" material, misinforma tion and suppression of information, lack of ...
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The American people have never adequately understood the extent to which crime causes a waste of time, money, and human life. The reason for this inadequate understanding is the news papers' failure to supply the people with basic information. Sensationalism, uncritical use of "handout" material, misinforma tion and suppression of information, lack of ...
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1998
In a formal sense, the law derives from a variety of sources including custom, court precedents, royal prerogative and legislation. Acts of Parliament, and judicial interpretations of those acts, along with the common law are the major formative influences. However, such an approach leaves much unanswered about the evolution of the criminal law and the
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In a formal sense, the law derives from a variety of sources including custom, court precedents, royal prerogative and legislation. Acts of Parliament, and judicial interpretations of those acts, along with the common law are the major formative influences. However, such an approach leaves much unanswered about the evolution of the criminal law and the
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Ratio Juris, 2015
AbstractGenocide is the intentional destruction of a group as such. What makes groups important, over and above the individual worth of the group's members? This paper explores Hannah Arendt's efforts to answer that question, and concludes that she failed.
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AbstractGenocide is the intentional destruction of a group as such. What makes groups important, over and above the individual worth of the group's members? This paper explores Hannah Arendt's efforts to answer that question, and concludes that she failed.
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1981
For centuries the criminal justice system of Sweden has been strictly regulated by legislation, supplemented by ordinances and administrative provisions. Thus, the Code of 1734 included a “Book on Offences” and a “Book on Punishments”. In 1864 these parts of the Code were replaced by a new Penal Code of 1862 which in turn was superseded in 1965 by the ...
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For centuries the criminal justice system of Sweden has been strictly regulated by legislation, supplemented by ordinances and administrative provisions. Thus, the Code of 1734 included a “Book on Offences” and a “Book on Punishments”. In 1864 these parts of the Code were replaced by a new Penal Code of 1862 which in turn was superseded in 1965 by the ...
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