Sports Violence as Criminal Assault: Development of the Doctrine by Canadian Courts

Criminal Mediation as a Doctrine of Restorative Justice from the Perspective of Law and Ethics

Background: Creating the ground for peace and reconciliation through recourse to arbitration has been one of the common methods of litigation that is rooted in ethics. In the criminal justice system, judicial and police officials are the reference for investigation, inquiry and investigation. The sovereign and their representatives have the exclusive competence and no other person has the autho...

Legal Doctrine on Collegial Courts

Appellate courts, which have the most control over legal doctrine, tend to operate through collegial (multimember) decision making. How does this collegiality affect their choice of legal doctrine? Can decisions by appellate courts be expected to result in a meaningful collegial rule? How do such collegial rules differ from the rules of individual judges? We explore these questions and show tha...

Prevent youth assault by assaulting firearm violence.

For decades, firearm injuries have been a leading cause of death, acquired disability, emotional anguish, and fear for our children and their families. Counting is easy: .32 000 deaths and 84 000 nonfatal shootings occurred in the United States in 2013. Among the average of 320 shootings per day were 48 children aged ,19 years or 130 youth aged ,25 years. What is harder to enumerate is the impa...

Does the Criminal Justice System Treat Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Offenders Leniently?

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Criminal Courts