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Crime Proceeds Value Threshold in Extended Confiscation in the Light of the Principles of Legality and Proportionality and Rational Penal Policy

Kriminologijos studijos, 2022
The article discusses the clause provided in the Lithuanian Criminal Code, which limits the court’s extended powers of confiscation in regard of crime proceeds of value less than EUR 12,500.
Skirmantas Bikelis
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Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
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Hidden Costs of Ethical Fashion: Sustainable Development Goals and Garment Worker Exploitation in Bangladesh

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
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EXTENDED CONFISCATION – SAFETY MEASURE REGULATED IN THE NEW CRIMINAL CODE [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2015
Extended confiscation is a safety measure introduced in Romanian criminal law in 2012. Romania's Constitutional Court has ruled several decisions in which a question has been raised of whether the legal provisions on extended confiscation are ...
Mihai Adrian HOTCA
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Asset Recovery in the German Criminal Justice System: Lights and Shadows of the New Regulation of the Confiscation of the Proceeds Of Crime

Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2020
In this paper, we intend to examine the highlights of the German Asset Recovery Act (Gesetz zur Reform der strafrechtlichen Vermögensabschöpfung), in force since 1st July 2017.
Ana E. Carrillo del Teso
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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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Implementing The Confiscation Of Confiscated Objects For Criminal Acts Of Corruption That Have Impaired Value

Corruptio, 2022
This research discuss the implementation of confiscating criminal acts of corruption that have decreased in value. The author raised this matter because, based on data released by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 533 (five hundred and thirty-three) cases throughout 2021. Based on this data, it was found that the total potential state losses
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Exemplary Damages as Public Interest Damages: Implications for Rights of Action, Settlement and the Distribution of Awards

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
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The Replacement of Criminal Fine in Criminal Taxation

Yuridika, 2019
The absence of provisions regulating the substitution of criminal fines in the KUP Law, raises legal uncertainty for law enforcement officials, especially prosecutors in executing court decisions.
Putri Ayu Wulandari, Mochammad Zaidun
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