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Magistrates condemn government plan to extend mandatory sentences
He also made clear his view that a minimum mandatory sentence for juveniles under 18 was not part of the traditions of the British criminal justice system. The sentencing regime announced on Wednesday includes replacing the much-criticised
Updated: 10/27/2011 08:18A
Gang Members Infiltrate US Military…and American Law Enforcement Infiltrates
Meanwhile, federal law enforcement agencies are doing their own infiltrating to combat violent Mexican drug cartels. The work has involved establishing networks of informants into powerful criminal organizations, and in the process, it has helped
Updated: 10/27/2011 08:16A
Towns see crime and carousing surge amid oil and gas boom
Authorities in Pennsylvania and other states are quick to point out that the vast majority of workers streaming in are law-abiding. But they also say the drilling industry has brought with it a hard-working, hard-drinking, rough-and-tumble element that
Updated: 10/27/2011 08:14A
Can restorative justice help balance the scales for African-American youth?
Restorative justice is a way of responding to crime that focuses more on people and relationships, and less on the law that has been broken. Whereas the criminal justice system typically asks, "What law has been broken?" "Who broke it?
Updated: 10/27/2011 08:11A
Gang violence being fuelled by prohibition on pot: report
75 per cent reject the notion that possession of marijuana should lead to a criminal record; . only 12 per cent support keeping current marijuana laws in place. The online poll, conducted Sept. 7 to 9, surveyed 800 BC adults who are Angus Reid Forum
Updated: 10/27/2011 08:11A
Without prejudice
Lord Justice Leveson will start hearing phone-hacking evidence before any criminal trials have taken place. Photograph: Wpa Pool/Getty Images Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into phone hacking will take place before the conclusion of two criminal
Updated: 10/27/2011 08:08A
Ruane Attorneys Adds New Criminal Defense Lawyer Grayson Colt Holmes
Ruane Attorneys, Connecticut's largest criminal defense firm is pleased to welcome recent University of Connecticut School of Law graduate Grayson Colt Holmes to the Connecticut DUI defense team in the Hartford Office. Grayson, who more informally is
Updated: 10/27/2011 08:04A
Roefaro: Sex offenders should wear GPS devices for life
“I am asking the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services to oversee an effort to research, pass and implement a law that would mandate all high risk sex offenders on parole to wear a GPS tracking device, for life,” Roefaro wrote in a
Updated: 10/27/2011 07:53A
Senate ratified Kazakhstan-UAE Agreement on mutual legal assistance in
The Kazakh Senate has adopted the Law "On ratification of the Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates on mutual legal assistance in criminal cases" at a plenary session. "The agreement was signed in Abu Dhabi on March
Updated: 10/27/2011 07:48A
Oil and gas drilling boom brings rowdy boys and crime
In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots
Updated: 10/27/2011 07:48A
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