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Child-on-child sex abuse complex to deal with
For many of the therapists and attorneys who deal with them, these juvenile offenders pose a profoundly complicated challenge for the child-protection and criminal justice systems. It's a diverse group that defies stereotypes, encompassing a minority
Updated: 01/08/2012 12:03A
Child-on-child sex abuse cases pose complex challenges
For many of the therapists and attorneys who deal with them, these juvenile offenders pose a profoundly complicated challenge for the child-protection and criminal justice systems. It's a diverse group that defies stereotypes, encompassing a minority
Updated: 01/08/2012 12:01A
Men get 14 and 15 years for UK black teen's murder
Afterwards the government passed a law requiring the police and other public bodies to work against racism and promote equality. It also prompted the scrapping of the ancient "double jeopardy" rule, which said a defendant acquitted of a crime could not
Updated: 01/07/2012 11:41P
He resorted to all legal avenues
DATUK Seri Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial will go into legal history as one of the longest criminal cases. There were some 60 adjournments and numerous interlocutory applications by Anwar's defence team, which used all legal avenues and loopholes in the
Updated: 01/07/2012 10:21P
Rothstein's ex-buddies brace for criminal charges
He was the great corruptor of our community, and he rolled it all into this vast criminal enterprise.” Charles Lichtman, a lawyer for the trustee handling the bankruptcy of Rothstein's 70-attorney law firm, said his testimony over a two-week period in
Updated: 01/07/2012 09:54P
FBI expands definition of rape to include men, children
As societal opinions of who could be victimized and what counts as an act of sexual assault evolved through the years, the states' criminal codes did as well. Sexual assault laws in Texas have no gender limitations and include expanded forms of sexual
Updated: 01/07/2012 08:44P
FBI revises archaic definition of rape; Washington state to follow
“We follow FBI standards and definitions,” said Joan Smith, Criminal Justice Information support manager at WASPC. Currently, in the glossary of the Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook, the manual used by WASPC, "rape" is defined as "the carnal knowledge
Updated: 01/07/2012 07:55P
All businesses checked refused to sell tobacco to minors
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene recently conducted six compliance checks in Allegany County to monitor the sale of tobacco products to minors, Maryland Law, Criminal Law § 10-107. The Allegany County Health Department would like to
Updated: 01/07/2012 07:39P
Arizona needs to rethink financial-disclosure penalties
Even though the "knowingly" standard is common in criminal law, the allegation was made, or at least strongly implied, that legislators knowingly crafted the "knowingly" loophole to escape accountability. The theme of the commentary was that the
Updated: 01/07/2012 07:32P
Iraq Turns Justice Into a Show, and Terror Confessions a Script
“It also undermines basic human dignity and respect for the process of justice.” Legal experts said the government's media strategies could violate international treaties Iraq had signed, which lay out basic rights for criminal suspects.
Updated: 01/07/2012 07:19P
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