This is an article about unintended consequences. It is about what criminals do not foresee when they join a conspiracy, and it is about what legislators do not anticipate when they make piecemeal amendments to the text of the Model Penal Code.Andrew IngramCriminal Law eJournal...
My interpretation provides a solution to the interpretive puzzle that has most vexed commentators: the alleged tension between Plato's philosophical theory of punishment and the content of his penal code. I defend a two-step solution to the puzzle. First, on my interpretation, because of the ...
In August 2003, Congress reformed the 332 Article of the Penal Code, known as the Anti-gang Law. The new article declared gangs to be illicit associations, meaning that the sole membership of any gang was a motive for arrest and incarceration. This law works in tandem with the 2002 Law ...
Federal Law Number 3 of 1987 concerning the promulgation of UAE Penal Code hereinafter referred to as theLawor thePenal Code, specifically provides the regulation of criminal conspiracy under chapter three. Article 44 of the Penal Code provides that where a person performs a crime or acts as a ...
The aim of our study was to analyse cases of elder abuse covered by the above-mentioned articles of the Penal Code that came to the attention of the judicial authority in the metropolitan area of Genoa between 2010 and 2019, in order to examine the characteristics of this abuse and propose...
Gender specific matrimonial offences under the Indian penal code: An overviewPushpa Kumari
The DVA 1994 must be read together with the Penal Code (Act 574) (PC) or any other written law involving offences relating to domestic violence. The objective of this paper is to analyse the legal protection available to domestic violence under the PC. Thus, provisions relating to offences ...
Appendix 2: UAE Penal Code: Sections on Defamation, PrivacyDuffy, Matt J
Background: In Germany, about half of all substance-dependent forensic patients (according to section 64 of the German Penal Code) prematurely drop out of therapy. Nevertheless, several months of therapy have taken place until then. It has not yet been investigated, to what extent patients ...
2 Indefinite Confinement in Switzerland The Swiss Criminal Code (SCC) distinguishes between prison sentences and measures, as the duration of the latter is not linked to the guilt of the offender but to the intended purpose of the measure, which could be to provide therapy or to ensure public...