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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., countries with robust institutions may still struggle with fatal inequalities in policing, prosecution, and sentencing. Eddie Bruce-Jones, a senior lecturer at the Birkbeck College School of Law, University of London, points to the grisly death of Oury Jalloh in German police custody to illustrate...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 57–64.
Published: 01 September 2013
... their cases are being litigated. People in jail don’t want trials, they want out. The more defendants get the opportunity to participate in their defense—outside the walls of a cell—the more likely they will go to trial. But sentencing and prisons must also be reformed for the system to work. Even...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... It would be life-changing for Indigenous people in Canada to have true tribal sovereignty and Indigenous methods of restorative justice within their own Nations court system. But until then, Gladue sentencing is a step toward reconciliation after centuries of colonization and abuse. It begins to confront...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 12–14.
Published: 01 June 2017
... before using social media. Under this law, an errant tweet could result in a six-month prison sentence and $275 fine. As of May, the provisions are still under discussion. While the act seems unlikely to pass, it is not without support—at least 60 out of 596 parliamentarians have endorsed...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 115–123.
Published: 01 March 2013
... for “suppression of peines-plancher ,” or unyielding minimum sentences, even this still awaits legislative action. Some 6,000 miles to the east, and several weeks later, a Thai court sentenced a magazine editor-cum-labor organizer to 10 years in prison for the crime of lèse-majesté , or insulting the king...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 93–96.
Published: 01 December 2002
... in February 1948. is that his judicial murder in 1949 fulfilled
The sentence against Vas, mild in itself, has a similar function in launching the purges
been regarded as symbolic atonement for inside the Czechoslovak officer corps as the
past crimes committed during Communist arrest and subsequent...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
... sentence for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of torture committed in Chad from 1982 to 1990, the trial chamber delivered the most important milestone in international criminal justice in years. It was a victory for universal jurisdiction, the principle by which a state can prosecute a person...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., still nauseated and feverish, she was moved to a jail cell. A few months later, a judge sentenced her to the maximum punishment for murder: 40 years in prison. Maria Teresa is not alone. Across the Americas, restrictive reproductive rights laws are harming women’s health and security, offering...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
... revised accordingly. New prisons, terminology, and dizzying acronyms were born, like MAS (Mandatory Aftercare Scheme), CBS (Community Based Sentences)—the list goes on. This new approach yielded results. The country’s recidivism rate dropped from 40 percent in 2000 to 23.6 in 2010. I’m here because...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 71–80.
Published: 01 March 2002
... court imposed a seven-
age control after the fact. To diplomats month prison sentence on Mohammad Dad-
and other observers in Tehran, the football far, a prominent reformist member of parlia
shenanigans rumbled like the first minatory ment who had made a speech criticizing the
tremors along...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 62–69.
Published: 01 June 2004
... mayor
slang term for armed Tutsi rebels, but ac of the central Rwandan town of Mushubati,
cording to several prosecution witnesses, in was sentenced to life in prison by a Swiss
cluding Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian who military tribunal in 1999 for crimes includ
worked as a broadcaster at RTLM...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 33–42.
Published: 01 March 2012
... concluded with the sentencing to six years in prison of 27 of the 112 men, marked the beginning of Chávez’s anti-American rhetoric. Colombian paramilitaries have often been associated with the Colombian military, which receives substantial funding from the U.S. government. By invoking his revolution...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 91–98.
Published: 01 June 2017
... but was extradited to Russia in January 2014 and sentenced to five years for the “pedophile” attacks. Thus Martsinkevich appeared on government- controlled TV stations as an expert on pedophilia, and was interviewed by presenters who seemed supportive of his views. For his part, Martsinkevich helped reinforce...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2016
... involve people serving the entire term of their sentence before the end of the trial. In one of the longest recorded cases, Machang Lalung, a man from the northeastern state of Assam, spent 54 years in jail on charges of causing grievous injury, the maximum sentence for which is 10 years. After a year...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 41–47.
Published: 01 March 2003
... (government-owned offenses as the theft of goats. The death
corporations and agencies in which private sentence imposed on Amina Lawal, a peas
investors may be permitted some ownership ant woman condemned for having a child
interest), members of the judiciary, and the out of wedlock, stirred a global...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 27–33.
Published: 01 December 2002
... threat. Otherwise, police and prosecution re
sweeping new powers. Britain, whose legal ly on regular criminal statutes to pursue
system had served as a model for so many suspects. In this regard, the sentencing of
other countries, including the United States, terrorists, both of the domestic...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 100–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to President Zuma complaining of coming “face to face with massive incompetence.” Victims of the Razor Gang were denied the most basic information about trial proceedings, like where certain court appearances were being held. In late 2016 and while already serving heavy sentences for other armed robberies...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 28–38.
Published: 01 March 2014
... aimed at youths. Indeed, the equation of male homosexuality and rape remains strong today in Iran. In most cases where death sentences are issued for crimes involving same-sex acts, the actual conviction is for rape, often rape of under-aged boys, even if the guilty party is an under-aged boy himself...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 77–82.
Published: 01 June 2018
...—in April, he began serving a 12-year sentence at a prison he opened more than a decade ago—is a part of this process. Moreover, Car Wash has made ripples throughout Latin America. In March, the president of Peru resigned after he was accused of accepting bribes from a company implicated in the scandal...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... Ponpon’s motives were unclear. He did not identify as gay, nor did he coordinate his efforts with anyone who did. Whatever his goal, the backlash against LGBT Liberians was gaining momentum. Under Liberian law, “voluntary sodomy” is a misdemeanor fetching prison sentences of up to one year, though...
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