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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1945 The author is Commerce Counsel of the Chicago and North Western Railway. He served as an officer of Field Artillery and in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, Regular Army, his last commission being Lt. Colonel, and is a member of the Committee on Military and Naval Law, American Bar Association.
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2013 An attempt is made to correlate such legal categories as "criminal prosecution", "charge", "suspicion", "preliminary investigation". Here is presented the comparative analysis of charge and suspicion as inherent elements of the agencies activities ...
E. I. Zemlyanitsin
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EVOLUŢIA INSTITUŢIEI DE RELUARE A URMĂRIRII PENALE
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2019 Article 287 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides the possibility of the resumption of criminal prosecution after the adoption by the prosecutor of a decision not to send the criminal case to the court.The purpose of the study was to identify to ...
Tatiana VIZDOAGĂ, Valeriu BODEAN
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Crime, Gender and Policing: The Role of Women Officers in Addressing Gender‐Based Violence in India
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether an increased presence of women in Indian police forces results in enhanced justice for victims of gender‐based crimes and improves the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of the police. It employs focus group discussions and qualitative system dynamics modelling to examine the dynamics of women in law ...
Kandaswamy Paramasivan +3 more
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Issues in separation of criminal procedural functions
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 The term ‘criminal procedural function’. has historically been used by scientists. In order to identify primary issues in procedural functions, the competition principle was analyzed.
Kaija S.
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An Assessment of the ICC Statute [PDF]
, 2001 The large number of signature States together with the current speed of ratification from various regions of the world seems to indicate the general acceptance of the treaty; many of the problems first identified have since been clarified and resolved ...
Lee, Roy S.
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
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The presumption of innocence and its role in the criminal process [PDF]
, 2016 Many international instruments proclaim that those who face criminal prosecution ought to be afforded a 'presumption of innocence', and the importance and central role of this presumption is recognized by legal systems throughout the world.
Ferguson, Pamela R.
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