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Church joins State in opposing challenge to constitution by gay activists
UNIBAM and its executive president, Caleb Orosco, are challenging Section 53 of the Criminal Code, which states that carnal intercourse against the order of nature is an indictable matter which carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Updated: 05/25/2011 03:22A
Parents, Teachers React to Possible Closure of School of Law and Criminal Justice
It's a school that lets young people get hands-on experience in law and criminal justice. But the two year-old School of Law and Criminal Justice at Savannah High School could be on the chopping block as the Savannah-Chatham School
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:21P
China ends death penalty for 13 economic crimes
The 13 crimes were economic-related non-violent offences, including smuggling cultural relics, gold, silver, and other precious metals and rare animals and their products out of the country; carrying out fraudulent activities with financial bills;
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:22P
More caution over death penalty
All those sentenced to death have their sentences reviewed, a process enshrined in the first Criminal Law of 1979, which empowered the Supreme People's Court to conduct the review. In 1983, that power was transferred to local higher people's courts but
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:19P
All drunk driving a crime: prosecutors
A driver is legally driving drunk if his or her blood contains 80 milligrams or more alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood. Drunk driving cases reported by police will face criminal charges filed without exception according to the articles in the newly
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:15P
Chinese courts urged to be prudent in use of death penalty
The Chinese legislature amended the Criminal Law in February to reduce the number of crimes punishable by death by 13 to 55, for the first time since the Criminal Law took effect in 1979. The amendment is considered another move by China to limit the
Updated: 05/24/2011 08:35P
China permits less death penalty
China's highest court has decided to give leniency to convicted men and women by reducing the number of executions from this year, said the annual work report of the Supreme People's Court in Beijing. The criminal convicts who the courts feel do not
Updated: 05/24/2011 08:35P
Corruption in Russia – a Social Phenomenon
Making use of large-scale corruption schemes, organized criminal groups organize and protect their structures from outside social control; they act operatively against organs representing law and order, inquiry bodies, and institutions of the penal
Updated: 05/24/2011 04:59P
Criminologist Peter Moskos: Give offenders a choice–prison or FLOGGING; (he's
ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today's OFF-SET questions is Peter Moskos, assistant professor of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He also teaches at the City University of
Updated: 05/24/2011 04:33P
1. Male Bites Victim's Finger
He was subsequently charged with speeding and had his driver's licence suspended and his vehicle impounded for a period of seven days under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act's Stunt Driving laws. Four other drivers were charged with driving their
Updated: 05/24/2011 04:20P
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