Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, s. 5 (2); offence against imbecile woman; definition of ‘imbecility’

The Children's Amendment Act and the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act: duty to report child abuse and sexual offences against children and mentally disabled persons.

The Definition of Jaefe in Feqh and Criminal Law (Critique and correction propose of the article 711 of IPC)

Introduction: Reports of criminal cases in injuries reveal a great deal of ambiguity of the judicial experts and forensic medicine concerning the injury of Jaefe. This is due to the definition of Jaefe in the Law. The place of Jaefe in body, the tools of Jaefe Injuries, and the degree of penetration of tool in the place are the factors that should be explained to discover the nature of Jaefe. A...

Adolescent Stalking: offence characteristics and effectiveness of criminal justice interventions

This is a project supported by a grant from the Criminology Research Council. The views expressed are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily those of the Council.

Chapter 5 Little ' s Law

Caroline is a wine buff and bon vivant. She likes to stop at her local wine store, Transcendental Tastings, on the way home from work. She browses the aisles looking for the latest releases from her favorite vineyards. Occasionally she picks up a few bottles. She stores these in a rack in a cool corner of her cellar. She and her partner eat out frequently but when they are at home they usually ...

s . so c - ph ] 2 5 N ov 2 00 5 Zipf Law for Brazilian Cities

This work studies the Zipf Law for cities in Brazil. Data from censuses of 1970, 1980, 1991 and 2000 were used to select a sample containing only cities with 30,000 inhabitants or more. The results show that the population distribution in Brazilian cities does follow a power law similar to the ones found in other countries. Estimates of the power law exponent were found to be 2.22 ± 0.34 for th...