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Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 to 2012
, 2020Threat theory argues that states toughen criminal laws to repress the competitive power of large minority groups. Yet, research on threat suffers from a poor understanding of why minority group size contributes to social control and a lack of evidence on
Scott W. Duxbury
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Religious conservatism, Islamic criminal law and the judiciary in Indonesia: a tale of three courts
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2018This article discusses three Indonesian court cases decided in 2017 in which the interests of conservative Muslims were supported. In the first, the Constitutional Court was asked to expand the definition of various moral offences in the Criminal Code in
S. Butt
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2019
Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. Textbook on Criminal Law has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past 30 years.
Michael Allen, Ian Edwards
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Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. Textbook on Criminal Law has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past 30 years.
Michael Allen, Ian Edwards
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, 2018
We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered ...
R. Duff
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We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered ...
R. Duff
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Criminal Law and Scope of Criminal Law
International Journal of Law and SocietyUnitary state The Republic of Indonesia is a country with foundations on law ( Rechts Staat ). In space its scope there is a number of one of the principles that is principle legality . Scope law criminal interests oriented general .
Yolla Veronica Sembiring +5 more
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Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law
, 2016Principles of Criminal Law takes a distinctly different approach to the study of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses.
Jeremy Horder
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2014
Crime and criminal law arguably constitute omnipresent topics in our society. Issues of criminal justice and criminal policy often feature prominently in political discussions and election campaigns. Citizens demand security from their governments and criminal law seems one suitable tool for the task of providing it.
Keiler, Johannes +2 more
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Crime and criminal law arguably constitute omnipresent topics in our society. Issues of criminal justice and criminal policy often feature prominently in political discussions and election campaigns. Citizens demand security from their governments and criminal law seems one suitable tool for the task of providing it.
Keiler, Johannes +2 more
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Medicine, Science and the Law, 1992
Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as ‘insane automatisms’. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Klaus W. Lange, G. M. Paul
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Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as ‘insane automatisms’. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Klaus W. Lange, G. M. Paul
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Rights and the Criminal Law [PDF]
Analysis, 1994 According to Judith Jarvis Thomson ([11, p. If.), there are many rights that we have against others prior to the law recognizing those rights. And if the law did not recognize them we should still have them. However, she says, the law does recognize many of them. Indeed, according to Thomson, the law actually assigns these rights to us. 'For example, I
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Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1987
AIDS is spread by acts, not by casual exposure. As AIDS spreads further, some are urging that those acts, including sexual acts, be treated as crimes. Indeed, two AIDS carriers have already been charged with crimes for risking sexual transmission of AIDS to others. In one case, the United States Army has court-martialed an infected soldier, Pfc. Adrian
Martha A. Field, Kathleen M. Sullivan
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AIDS is spread by acts, not by casual exposure. As AIDS spreads further, some are urging that those acts, including sexual acts, be treated as crimes. Indeed, two AIDS carriers have already been charged with crimes for risking sexual transmission of AIDS to others. In one case, the United States Army has court-martialed an infected soldier, Pfc. Adrian
Martha A. Field, Kathleen M. Sullivan
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