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China unveils dissident detention powers
Police powers to hold suspects facing subversion and other state security charges are set out in revisions to China's Criminal Procedure Law sent to the annual parliament, the National People's Congress, for approval. "Detainees' families should be
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:58A
Wilson punctured ideas on crime
In the aftermath of this revolution in the criminal law, promoted by the intelligentsia in academia and in the media, the long downward trend in murder suddenly reversed. By 1974, the murder rate was more than twice what it had been in 1961.
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:52A
Wilson punctured ideas on crime
In the aftermath of this revolution in the criminal law, promoted by the intelligentsia in academia and in the media, the long downward trend in murder suddenly reversed. By 1974, the murder rate was more than twice what it had been in 1961.
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:52A
Sowell: Wilson saved lives by telling truth about crime
Wilson was a scholar who studied crime. He saved lives because his penetrating analyses of crime, and the effect of the criminal law, debunked the theories of other intellectuals, which had led judges and legislators to ease up on criminals -- leading
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:46A
Bahraini Kangaroo Court Trials
Bahrain's National Safety Courts flout international law, as well as Bahraini criminal law provisions. The monarchy's choice lack competence, impartiality and independence. Defendants can't communicate properly with counsel.
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:39A
Iceland Seeks Retribution Law Against Politicians as Haarde Exposes Holes
Iceland is using a criminal trial examining former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde's role in the island's 2008 banking crisis as a platform to seek laws that will make it easier to prosecute politicians. “There's a need to review the whole legal
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:27A
Iceland Seeks Retribution Law Against Politicians as Haarde Exposes Holes
Iceland is using a criminal trial examining former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde's role in the island's 2008 banking crisis as a platform to seek laws that will make it easier to prosecute politicians. “There's a need to review the whole legal
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:27A
Stalking to become a crime for the first time with offenders facing up to five
By James Chapman Stalking is to become a crime for the first time, with offenders facing jail for up to five years and unlimited fines. After decades of debate, David Cameron will announce today that the Government is to change the law to protect tens
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:17A
Stalking to become a crime for the first time with offenders facing up to five
By James Chapman Stalking is to become a crime for the first time, with offenders facing jail for up to five years and unlimited fines. After decades of debate, David Cameron will announce today that the Government is to change the law to protect tens
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:17A
Pakistani ministry cites spicy food as reason to not raise criminal age
For now, that means child sex abuse and pornography are not covered by Pakistan's criminal law. In a written submission, the ministry of law and justice said that, under sharia, children became adults at the onset of puberty which varied under a range
Updated: 03/08/2012 04:04A
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