Punishment Asset Forfeiture for Corruptor In Perspective of Indonesian Community Justice

Civil Asset Forfeiture: A Judicial Perspective

Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF) is a longstanding and controversial legal process viewed on the one hand as a powerful tool for combating drug crimes and on the other hand as a violation of the rights of US citizens. Data used to support both sides of the controversy to date has come from government sources representing records of the events at the time of occurrence. Court dockets represent litig...

Asset Forfeiture and Criminal Deterrence

Asset forfeiture laws allow the seizure of assets used in the commission of a crime. This paper examines the impact of such laws on deterrence by incorporating the possibility of asset forfeiture into the standard economic model of crime. When punishment is by a fine that can be optimally chosen, forfeiture is never optimal because of the deadweight loss it imposes in the capital market. When t...

„holistic‟ Community Punishment and Criminal Justice Interventions for Women

Calls for „holistic‟ responses to halt the increasing imprisonment of women are continually reiterated. Solutions are sought which aim to be both „gender-responsive‟ and „community-based‟, however the absence of meaningful definitions of „community‟ and „holistic‟ means that superficial responses are often put in place in response to failures of the system. Taking as an example one attempt to i...

1 : Women , punishment and social justice

In the last 20 years, there has been a growing international recognition that prison is an inappropriate response to women in conflict with the law and a subsequent concern among academics, policy-makers and practitioners to reduce the number of women imprisoned (Sudbury 2005; Sheehan, McIvor and Trotter 2011). Across jurisdictions, lawbreaking by women differs in a number of important ways fro...

The Punishment Debate in Restorative Justice Professor Kathleen Daly School of Criminology and Criminal Justice