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The punishment must fit the crime, even for drug users
Australia's exports could include its approach to drug possession. THE case of the Australian boy arrested on drug charges in Bali offers the opportunity to review our nation's own response to drug use, both here and abroad. While empathy for the boy's
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:07A
3VR's CrimeDex Expands to Six Continents to Combat Financial Crime Internationally
CrimeDex is a criminal investigation collaboration network that allows law enforcement and business communities to share business-related crime information. Alerts are created and sent to the CrimeDex network to identify criminals wanted for a variety
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:03A
Department of Justice Challenges South Carolina's Immigration Law
Similar to Arizona's SB 1070 and Alabama's HB 56, this law will place significant burdens on federal agencies, diverting their resources away from high-priority targets, such as terrorism, drug smuggling and gang activity, and those with criminal
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:00A
Nigeria: Queer Alliance of Govt Statement on Same Sex Marriage Prohibition
Discriminatory laws found in the penal and Criminal Codes also prevent sexual minorities from seeking redress because state actors, especially law enforcement agencies use these laws to further abuse and violate their human rights.
Updated: 11/01/2011 07:57A
Bomb accused facing further charges
Today he was further charged with four offences under the Criminal Law Act of 1976 of knowingly making false reports tedning to show that an offence had been committed. The charges are non scheduled offences - non terrorist offences - and the court was
Updated: 11/01/2011 07:44A
High-Powered Sniper Rifles to Go Unregistered
Chu deflected criticism over the time it took to lay charges, saying that being thorough for the city's largest ever criminal investigation was probably worth the extra time. 2005 Yu55 will come closer to the planet than any other big asteroid in more
Updated: 11/01/2011 07:34A
Concealed carry is now law of land in Wisconsin
the 49th state to let law-abiding residents carry concealed weapons. But the first state permits won't be issued for a few weeks. If you're caught carrying a hidden weapon before then, police say you could face a criminal misdemeanor charge.
Updated: 11/01/2011 07:22A
Controversial Sofia City Court Chair Prone to Delegate Wiretap Authorizations
A judge who has not specialized in criminal law has been said to approve around 3/4 of the requests for the deployment of special surveillance devices submitted with the Sofia City Court (SCC). An inquiry of Bulgarian news portal Mediapool has shown
Updated: 11/01/2011 07:03A
Draft law on decriminalization of some articles of Criminal Code not included
But amendments to the Law "On elections" are planned to be considered by the Parliament on November 3. Five relevant bills were registered in the Verkhovna Rada . The opposition refuses to participate in considereation of the proposed by the majority
Updated: 11/01/2011 07:01A
Radical solution?: Armenia mulls chemical castration of convicted pedophiles
Draft amendments were submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and have been passed by the first hearing; the amendments to the RA Criminal Code provide for adding a new compulsory method to the raft of measures to make combating sex crimes
Updated: 11/01/2011 06:54A
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